He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before shifting gears to popularize Blue Nun wine.
Mr. Sichel and his sister were staying with them in France in 1939 when Germany marched into Poland, marking the start of World War II. The family was barred from leaving the country and ...
Peter Sichel, who has died aged 102, was a German Jewish émigré to the US who oversaw postwar CIA activities in Eastern Europe and the Far East until, disillusioned, he resigned to take over his ...
Dr. Werner Sichel, a widely known scholar and professor emeritus of economics at Western Michigan University, died in Boca Raton, Florida, Aug. 4. He was 83. Sichel, a longtime Kalamazoo resident, ...