Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...World War I. While in private law practice, served a term in the Maryland legislature. Foreign Service officer, 1925-27. Spent next dozen years running his 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, sitting on a score of corporation boards, serving in Virginia legislature. During World War II, Bruce directed OSS operations in Europe. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947. In 1948, he became chief of the EGA mission to France. Since April 1949, Bruce has been U.S. Ambassador to France...
...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...
...wartime cloak and dagger murder in Italy of OSS mission chief...
...more than two months, they roamed the hills around Lake Orta, 45 miles northwest of Milan, checking on partisan groups, radioing back coded reports to OSS headquarters in Siena, always playing a nerve-racking hide & seek with the enemy. One night, they lay flattened out in a rainswept field listening to Nazi convoys splashing down the road 100 yards away; for several days, they were hidden in a church altar vault while German troopers camped below...