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Thanks to these findings, the body was identified as that of Major William V. Holohan, 40, the OSS agent who had mysteriously disappeared during a mission far behind the enemy lines in December 1944.* What fascinated Pathologist Lentino, as he now reports in the A.M.A. Journal, was the amazing state of preservation of the internal organs. As his trained eye looked at the organs, though they were six years dead, it was simple for him to identify instantly the stomach and heart, liver and spleen. But when he took specimens of them for laboratory examination, the microscope showed that...
...Other members: World War II OSS Director William J. Donovan, former Veterans Administration Medical Director Paul R. Hawley, Standard Oil Co. of California President Theodore S. Petersen, Clarence Adamy, assistant campaign director for the Republican National Committee, Morgan State College (Baltimore) President Martin D. Jenkins and John S. Thompson, vice chairman of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance...
...March 1953 a two-man subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee called a Pittsburgh law clerk to Washington and asked him, in effect: Had he murdered an OSS major named William V. Holohan while they were together on a wartime mission behind the German lines in Italy in 1944? The witness was ex-Lieut. Aldo Lorenzo Icardi, 35, and the question was not unexpected. The Defense Department had already accused Icardi and a Rochester tool designer, ex-Sergeant Carl G. LoDolce, of shooting Major Holohan and dumping his body in a lake-but it could not bring them...
...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...
...Rhodes Scholarship winner in 1937, Bailey spent two years in Oxford. He served in the OSS during World...