{"id":1121,"date":"2012-11-20T10:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:51:11","slug":"copeland-miles-axe-jr-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"COPELAND, MILES AXE, JR., 1916-1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician, espionage agent; political consultant, author. Born&#8211; July 16, 1916, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Miles Axe and Leonore (Armstrong) Copeland. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, September 25, 1942. Children&#8211; Four. Worked as a jazz trumpeter and arranger\u00a0 in the 1930&#8217;s;\u00a0played with several leading bands including the Glenn Miller Orchestra.\u00a0Served in the U.S. Army in World War II; assigned to the counter-espionage branch of the Office of Strategic Services,\u00a0forerunner of the CIA;\u00a0worked for the CIA 1945-53 and 1955-57.\u00a0Worked as a business and political consultant to Middle Eastern governments and private firms.\u00a0\u00a0Contributed articles to magazines, newspapers, and management journals;\u00a0 co-authored a television\u00a0film on the British spy Kim Philby. Received the Legion of Merit, the Croix de Guerre, and Presidential Citation. Died January 14, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond Cloak and Dagger. S.l.; Pinacle Books, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Game of Nations. London; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Player; the Confessions of the CIA&#8217;s Original Political Operative. London; Aurum Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Spy World. London; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Staffs and Staff Work. S.l.; U. S. Army, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Without Cloak and Dagger. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colloquial Damascene Arabic Dictionary. S.l.; s.n., 1952.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 11-20-2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician, espionage agent; political consultant, author. Born&#8211; July 16, 1916, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Miles Axe and Leonore (Armstrong) Copeland. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, September 25, 1942. Children&#8211; Four. Worked as a jazz trumpeter and arranger\u00a0 in the 1930&#8217;s;\u00a0played with several leading bands including the Glenn Miller Orchestra.\u00a0Served in the U.S. Army in World War II; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}