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Following Pearl Harbor, Lattimore became director of Pacific Operations for the [[Office of War Information]]. In 1942 he and Currie tried to get a commission in military intelligence for [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]]. The following year, Lattimore instructed [[Joseph Barnes]]<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791284,00.html ''Tongue-Tied''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 07, 1944.</ref> to replace non-Communist Chinese of the OWI with Communists; OWI did so. On July 14 [[Thomas A. Bisson]], in the Institute of Pacific Relations publication, ''Far Eastern Survey'', referred to Maoist forces as the "democratic China."  This [[disinformation]] was widely repeated among journalists and academics.  In July and August 1943, the Chinese Communist forces -- in the midst of the war -- joined with the Japanese armies to inflict a serious defeat on the [[Kuomintang]] allies with the United States.  <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 36.</ref>

Following Pearl Harbor, Lattimore became director of Pacific Operations for the [[Office of War Information]]. In 1942 he and Currie tried to get a commission in military intelligence for [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]]. The following year, Lattimore instructed [[Joseph Barnes]]<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791284,00.html ''Tongue-Tied''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 07, 1944.</ref> to replace non-Communist Chinese of the OWI with Communists; OWI did so. On July 14 [[Thomas A. Bisson]], in the Institute of Pacific Relations publication, ''Far Eastern Survey'', referred to Maoist forces as the "democratic China."  This [[disinformation]] was widely repeated among journalists and academics.  In July and August 1943, the Chinese Communist forces -- in the midst of the war -- joined with the Japanese armies to inflict a serious defeat on the [[Kuomintang]] allies with the United States.  <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 36.</ref>

At President Roosevelt's request, Lattimore accompanied US Vice-President [[Henry A. Wallace|Henry Wallace]] on a mission to China in 1944, for the US Office of War Information.[http://content.cdlib.org:8088/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&doc.view=content&chunk.id=d0e2411&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=ucpress]. During this visit, which overlapped the [[D-Day]] landings, Wallace and his delegation stopped over in Siberia and were given a tour of the [[Magadan]] concentration camp at [[Kolyma]], which [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html Nobel laureate] [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn|Alexandr Solzhenitsyn]] dubbed the "pole of cold and cruelty."<ref>Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6XCUeU3soM4C The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956]'' (HarperCollins, 2002) ISBN 0060007761, p. 211</ref> "[T]he Soviet government sent upwards of one million prisoners to Magadan for servitude in the hard labor camps of the Kolyma..." writes [http://memory.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfabout/mfack.html Library of Congress historian] David J. Nordlander. "Standing as the most notorious center of the Gulag, indeed as its 'capital,' Magadan became synonymous with [http://books.google.com/books?id=16l79hfKMzEC the Great Terror]."<ref>David J. Nordlander, "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2501047 Origins of a Gulag Capital: Magadan and Stalinist Control in the Early 1930s," ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 57, No. 4 (Winter 1998), p. 791</ref> According to [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n8_v49/ai_19336552/ ex-Communist] Marvin Liebman, one of the camp's prisoners, Elinor Lipper (author of ''[http://books.google.com/books?cd=1&id=1jMeAAAAIAAJ Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps]''), told him of an incident during Wallace's visit:

At President Roosevelt's request, Lattimore accompanied US Vice-President [[Henry A. Wallace|Henry Wallace]] on a mission to China in 1944, for the US Office of War Information.[http://content.cdlib.org:8088/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&doc.view=content&chunk.id=d0e2411&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=ucpress]. During this visit, which overlapped the [[D-Day]] landings, Wallace and his delegation stopped over in Siberia and were given a tour of the [[Magadan]] concentration camp at [[Kolyma]], which [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html Nobel laureate] [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn|Alexandr Solzhenitsyn]] dubbed the "pole of cold and cruelty."<ref>Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6XCUeU3soM4C The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956]'' (HarperCollins, 2002) ISBN 0060007761, p. 211</ref> "[T]he Soviet government sent upwards of one million prisoners to Magadan for servitude in the hard labor camps of the Kolyma..." writes [http://memory.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfabout/mfack.html Library of Congress historian] David J. Nordlander. "Standing as the most notorious center of the Gulag, indeed as its 'capital,' Magadan became synonymous with [http://books.google.com/books?id=16l79hfKMzEC the Great Terror]."<ref>David J. Nordlander, "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2501047 Origins of a Gulag Capital: Magadan and Stalinist Control in the Early 1930s]," ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 57, No. 4 (Winter 1998), p. 791</ref> According to [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n8_v49/ai_19336552/ ex-Communist] Marvin Liebman, one of the camp's prisoners, Elinor Lipper (author of ''[http://books.google.com/books?cd=1&id=1jMeAAAAIAAJ Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps]''), told him of an incident during Wallace's visit:

{{cquote|Suddenly, a woman ran from the ranks and threw herself at Wallace’s feet. She screamed in Russian how the prisoners were being treated, how they were dying, how they were innocent, as innocent as the snow at his feet. ‘Please,’ she sobbed, ‘please help us.’

{{cquote|Suddenly, a woman ran from the ranks and threw herself at Wallace’s feet. She screamed in Russian how the prisoners were being treated, how they were dying, how they were innocent, as innocent as the snow at his feet. ‘Please,’ she sobbed, ‘please help us.’

She was taken away, of course, while Wallace’s translator told him that she was mentally ill and he could not understand what she was saying… I subsequently discovered that Wallace’s translator that day had been Owen Lattimore...<ref>Marvin Liebman, ''[ Coming Out Conservative: An Autobiography]'' (Chronicle Books, 1992) ISBN 0811800733, pp. 87-88</ref>}}

She was taken away, of course, while Wallace’s translator told him that she was mentally ill and he could not understand what she was saying… I subsequently discovered that Wallace’s translator that day had been Owen Lattimore...<ref>Marvin Liebman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=feV4AAAAMAAJ Coming Out Conservative: An Autobiography]'' (Chronicle Books, 1992) ISBN 0811800733, pp. 87-88</ref>}}

In a travelogue for ''[[National Geographic]]'', Lattimore described this Siberian [[gulag]] as a combination of the Hudson's Bay Company and the [[TVA]], gushing about how strong and well-fed the inmates were and ascribing to camp commandant Feliks Nikishov “a trained and sensitive interest in art and music and also a deep sense of civic responsibility.”<ref>Paul Johnson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=aXm-lKKztywC&pg=PA1&dq=the+survival+of+the+adversary+culture&sig=NBsLl97lMC2A-i-gpuvRZdkewDA#PPA180,M1 ''The Survival of the Adversary Culture'' (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1988) ISBN 1560005548, p. 180]</ref> Solzhenitsyn wrote in the ''[[Gulag Archipelago]]'' that the city of Magadan was founded as a Soviet Gulag, and would not have existed otherwise.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944884,00.html?promoid=googlep Islands of Slavery], ''[[Time magazine]]'', June 24, 1974.</ref> Commentator Cal Thomas wrote in 2007,

In a travelogue for ''[[National Geographic]]'', Lattimore described this Siberian [[gulag]] as a combination of the Hudson's Bay Company and the [[TVA]], gushing about how strong and well-fed the inmates were and ascribing to camp commandant Feliks Nikishov “a trained and sensitive interest in art and music and also a deep sense of civic responsibility.”<ref>Paul Johnson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=aXm-lKKztywC&pg=PA1&dq=the+survival+of+the+adversary+culture&sig=NBsLl97lMC2A-i-gpuvRZdkewDA#PPA180,M1 ''The Survival of the Adversary Culture'' (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1988) ISBN 1560005548, p. 180]</ref> Solzhenitsyn wrote in the ''[[Gulag Archipelago]]'' that the city of Magadan was founded as a Soviet Gulag, and would not have existed otherwise.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944884,00.html?promoid=googlep Islands of Slavery], ''[[Time magazine]]'', June 24, 1974.</ref> Commentator Cal Thomas wrote in 2007,