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...Cloak & Dagger. But last month, fretting lest OSS land in the postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...those days our Tokyo correspondent had to work incognito - operating like a ''cloak and dagger" boy and smuggling the news out by slipping it into the hands of American tourists on their way home...
...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
...glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst...