Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department of Latin American regional studies, Boston University has all but fallen over backwards trying to be fair. In the past few years, ex-Communist Nathaniel Weyl has accused Halperin of attending Communist meetings in 1936; and ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley has testified that Halperin, while in the OSS, passed secret documents to her to be sent on to Moscow. But when Halperin took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before the Jenner Committee last March, the university refused to fire him. Reason for its decision: lack of "definite evidence." Not until Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the Harry Dexter...
Julius Joseph, OSS...
Helen Tenney, OSS...
Maurice Halperin, OSS...
Cannibal Country. Explorer Clark was fresh from an OSS career in the Far East when he flew to Peru in 1946, in pursuit of a private postwar plan: he had heard of a man in Lima who had a treasure map. Sure enough, Clark found his man and paid him $100 for "a yellowed, badly cracked and very old Spanish parchment." From the little road's-end town of La Merced one July morning, accompanied by a Peruvian guide, he headed into the bush and six months of savagery...