Donald Barr spent most of his life as a consummate institutional man, the kind who moved easily through the quiet corridors of American power without ever attracting a spotlight. Born in Manhattan in 1921 and educated at Columbia University, he served during the Second World War in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime intelligence agency that l…
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