Word: oss
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...with an extraordinary number of U.S. officers, skillfully promoting his cause. His growing reputation led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) to make contact with Ho in 1945 in the jungles along the China-Viet Nam border. Under the code name "Lucius," Ho provided the OSS with intelligence about Japanese forces and, a generation before U.S. air attacks on North Viet Nam, his guerrillas rescued 17 downed American flyers. An OSS medic probably saved Ho's life by treating his tropical fevers with sulfa drugs...
...versatile Braden, 51, is a former Dartmouth English instructor, wartime OSS and CIA official, and owner of the Oceanside (Calif.) Blade-Tribune (which he purchased in 1954 with the help of a $100,000 loan from Nelson Rockefeller and sold profitably last year). A Kennedy liberal, Braden headed California's board of education, a post in which he clashed often with Max Rafferty, the reactionary state superintendent. This journalistic odd couple-Braden is tall, wiry and intense, Mankiewicz is short, round-faced and bemused -launched their project in the belief that most columns "are lousy" and fail to express...
...early 1944, Artillery Captain Fielding was transferred to the OSS and shipped to Italy, Algeria and Yugoslavia to do propaganda work behind enemy lines. After a narrow escape from an ambush on the Dalmatian coast, he was discharged as a major with a citation that credited him with arranging "more than 30,000 voluntary enemy surrenders." He returned to civilian life as a roving journalist, and as he roved, he discovered that no travel guide catered to his all-American life style...
Early Surrender. Dulles did change history when he returned to Bern in 1942 as OSS chief in Switzerland. A contact known pseudonymously as George Wood, in the German Foreign Office, sent him more than 2,000 documents from Berlin. Dulles kept in touch with the ring of German officers who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. He learned of the V-l and V-2 secret-weapons development at the Peenemunde research center in time for Allied bombing raids to set the program back for crucial months...
...Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...