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"text": "[R]etired U.S. Army Colonel Charles Beckwith (the first commander of the U.S. military’s secret “Delta” counterterrorist force and the man who lead the attempt to free U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979) testified that yes, he sometimes glanced at the personal-service ads, but no, he “didn’t pay a lot of attention” to them. “You read one of these, it sounds so machoish, it just—it didn’t make my heart beat fast so I’d go on to something else that did.”",
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