Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OSS during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...
Acheson pointed out that many of State's loyalty problems traced back to 1945 and 1946, when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
...Philip Jaffe. The case began that February when the eyes of a Government official fell upon a surprising Amerasia article. It quoted at length and almost verbatim from a secret report which was supposed to be tucked safely away in the Office of Strategic Services' file. The OSS immediately put a special investigator, Frank Brooks Bielaski, on Amerasia's pink and wispy trail...
Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
Using popular front-tactics, Ho established the Viet Minh-League for the Independence of Viet Nam. It directed guerrilla war against both Vichy French and Japanese, enlisted the support of many Indo-Chinese nationalists. American OSS agents and arms were parachuted to Ho's side...