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...Unità took another beating last week from another American, Michael Stern, Rome correspondent for Fawcett Publications (True, True Confessions). Ten months ago, Stern wrote a sensational story for True that two former American OSS men had killed their superior officer, Major William Holohan, in 1944 in Italy, to help Communist partisans (TIME, Aug. 27). L'Unità fired back at Stern's charges against the Reds: Stern is a "false journalist" who is really acting as a spy for the U.S. State Department...
...northwest, Red machinations of this sort apparently brought about the death of Major William Holohan, American OSS officer (TIME, Aug. 27). In the northeast, around Udine in the province of Friuli, the Communist Garibaldi brigade and the non-Communist Osoppo brigade had been fighting as one division. The Osoppos were commanded by a tough regular army officer named Francesco de Gregori, whose nom de guerre was Bolla ("Bubble"). In the autumn of 1944 Bolla discovered that the Garibaldis were playing footie with Yugoslav Communists, and were more interested in grabbing chunks of Italian territory for Tito than fighting the common...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, the granddaddy of the headlinemakers, is quietly measuring off the possibility of an investigation into Communist plans for sabotage of U.S. industry. ¶ The House Armed Services Committee is preparing a report on the death of OSS's Major William Holohan in Italy (TIME, Aug. 27). ¶ A special House committee will soon hold open hearings on the Katyn Forest massacre (TIME, Nov. 26). ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the District of Columbia will look into crime in the nation's capital. ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the Post Office & Civil Service will...
...Major William V. Holohan...
There this week, as Bill Holohan's body came home for burial, stood the strange case of the missing major...