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The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

Update: 2025-09-10
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From the iron hills of Hurley, Wisconsin, came a man who waged war not with weapons, but with secrets. Leon Lawrence Lewis, born in Hurley in 1888 to German Jewish immigrants, would one day be called the “spymaster of Los Angeles.”
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The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

Kerry Bloedorn