Archer K Blood was a popular name in Bangladesh during the War of Liberation. He was the American Consul General who disagreed with US handling of the 'crisis' and sent a message through what was known as the dissent channel. In Washington where Bangladesh crisis became a topic of great interest Blood received considerable attention. There we used to get a lot of real as opposed to sanitized information on the situation in Bangladesh through the grapevine of the State Department and the source of the grapevine was Archer Blood. It was also quite a gossip in Washington at the Archer Blood was the Consul General, Scott Butcher was his political officer and Andy Killgore had left Dhaka just before election and was working in the area office in the State Department...