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John Birch

United States Army officer
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    The name derives from John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence officer who was killed by Chinese communists on Aug. 25, 1945, making him, in the society’s view, the first hero of the Cold War. The society publishes the biweekly magazine The New American and the…

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