Early Life
Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, a cousin of Max Yasgur of Woodstock fame. Fluent in five languages (including Japanese), Booke earned degrees from both Columbia and Yale Universities, and later served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer.
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