Word: oss
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...possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
...Normandy invasion, has done an appropriately heroic job of separating the leader from the legend. Brown had some advantages over his ill-fated predecessors, among them Donovan's private papers and his wife's 65-year diary. The result is a memo-studded, overweight history of the OSS, relieved by tales of counterespionage and by the story of Donovan himself...
...beginning, their performances were tragically unprofessional. OSS networks in Istanbul and Rome were penetrated by German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a Donovan drinking buddy, the British undermined efforts to put OSS agents in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Burma, India and other places where their own agents were already at work...
Some time this morning (I, of course, know the exact time, but reasons of security do not allow me to spell it out here for all the world and the OSS to see) I will slip through enemy lines and witness a great battle, and I believe, the continued success of Plan Crimson...
...York, where American and German agents hunt and are hunted? Manhattan-based OSS Agent Carl Berlin picks up a trail that leads to something big. Berlin, a German-born Jew, learns that Levi has escaped the death camp and is already in the U.S. His purpose: to stamp the plight of the Jews on the world's conscience by assassinating Roosevelt. This seems incredible: the Italian actor is in Hollywood beginning a movie career even though he can barely speak English. However, Levi's disappearance from a film studio sets off a cross-country chase. With a sackful...