Word: oss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grotto but the brand-new $55 million Paradise Island Hotel. Still, a touch of magic was called for, and the wand that summoned all the Beautiful People to court was held as usual by Serge Obolensky, 77, former prince and Imperial Russian Guards officer, international playboy, World War II OSS paratrooper, and currently the world's most aristocratic purveyor of public relations...
...week at a Washington dinner, where Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen was presented with the William J. Donovan Medal by veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. "I heard that many members of Congress would be here tonight," Lyndon deadpanned, "and I thought I would honor an old OSS tradition by dropping in behind the enemy lines. The man you honor tonight is often accused of being my fifth column on the Hill. I want all of you to know that Everett Dirksen is the only column I haven't complained about all year long." Then he took...
...Rusk left the South, physically and otherwise, more than 30 years ago. His wife Virginia is from Seattle. Rusk has consistently stood up for civil rights, even while an Army captain in World War II, when he broke the color line at an officers' mess by bringing an OSS officer named Ralph Bunche to dine with him. Although his official role seldom requires it, he vigorously defends the legitimate aspirations of the Negro...
Political Abduction? Thompson's friends, who include former OSS agents (Thompson first came to Thailand when working for the OSS) and other men with experience in intelligence work, feel that he could have been kidnaped for a ransom not yet demanded. But they lean toward the belief that he was abducted for political motives. What political motives? They are not sure, but feel that he may be the prisoner of Communists who wish to use him as some sort of intermediary or in a propaganda ploy. They point out, for example, that Thompson knew many of Ho Chi Minh...
...Allies he had tried to serve. Yet the facts of his ring's existence and its ways of operating, as reported by Authors Accoce and Quet, are grudgingly accepted as true by Swiss, West German and British intelligence personnel. Even Allen Dulles, who operated for the OSS in Switzerland during the war, acknowledges Roessler as a "fantastic source." He was that and much more-but the code on his motivation has yet to be broken...