title: Les Whitten
text: Leslie Hunter "Les" Whitten Jr. (February 21, 1928 – December 1, 2017) was an American investigative reporter. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He worked at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as novelist and translator of French poetry Baudelaire. He was arrested by the FBI and was spied on by the CIA during his career.
  
  Whitten died in Adelphi, Maryland of sepsis on December 1, 2017 at the age of 89.
  
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  1928 births
  2017 deaths
  Deaths from sepsis
  Infectious disease deaths in Maryland
  American journalists
  Writers from Jacksonville, Florida