Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian front in December 1944, word reached OSS headquarters in Siena that Major William V. Holohan, chief of a secret mission far behind the German lines, had disappeared; the Army marked him down as one more brave man lost in the service of his country. Last week, 6½ years later, the Defense Department explained Major Holohan's disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned...
...Fleischmann worked his way through the University of Buffalo Law School. With two brothers, he set up a law firm in Buffalo, went to work for the War Production Board in World War II. In 1943 he joined the Navy as a lieutenant, led a 100-man OSS mission into Burma to organize espionage...
...begun, he said, when he was a Marine officer attached to OSS, smuggling arms to Tito's Communists in their guerrilla war against the Nazis. He was "tremendously impressed, deeply affected, by the work the Partisans were doing. I became all steamed up ... There was something churning around in me, and I couldn't handle it." After the war, he decided "to go into this political thing and try to do something to make conditions better in the world." In June 1946, he joined the Communist Party...
During the war, he helped train senior officers in military government and worked with the OSS in Washington. In 1949 he returned to Germany as a visiting expert on education and helped reestablish the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik which had been dissolved by the Nazis. He also visited his old colleague, Theodor Heuss, now President of the West German Republic...
George Petemezas seemed to be a young man with promise. Born in Pittsburgh of Greek parents, dark-eyed, natty George joined the Army before Pearl Harbor, served honorably as an OSS agent in Yugoslavia...