Word: oss
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...affairs as well as a scholar, Langer served as Chief of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The World War II era was the topic of two Langer works, The Challenge to isolation, 1937-1940, and The Undeclared...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was the State Department official most directly charged with responsibility for Viet Nam policy under both Jack Kennedy and Johnson. A graduate of West Point (Class of '43), a wartime guerrilla fighter with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, an OSS officer in the Far East, holder of a Ph.D. in international politics from Yale, Hilsman had long talked about returning to academic life. He once tried to submit his resignation to Kennedy, but Kennedy persuaded him to stay on. Both Kennedy and Harriman admired Hilsman's rapid-fire command...
Ornithology & OSS. Ripley is certainly no triumph of taxidermy. Science-minded since youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...
...belonging to another tourist. The critic finds its lining contains ten-count 'em-ten $10,000 bills. To no one's surprise, the critic turns out to be a former foreign correspondent who can order breakfast in at least six foreign languages and-what else?-a onetime OSS man in World War II. In no time at all he is up to his tweed lapels in a fell and fancy plot to blame the U.S. for bribing some Frenchmen to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Could this chicanery be anything less than the last and most dastardly doing...
...does not hurt in Gary's current effort to shepherd through Congress the SEC's 3,000-page report calling for a thorough overhaul of the nation's securities markets. Publicity-shunning Gary's modest manner belies an inner toughness. A Marine major with the OSS in Yugoslavia during World War II, Gary once produced only a few wilted flowers for decorations at a dinner that his commanding officer was giving for Tito. Dressed down by his C.O., Gary snapped: "I'm no damned posy picker." He still...