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...House Un-American Activities Committee, the granddaddy of the headlinemakers, is quietly measuring off the possibility of an investigation into Communist plans for sabotage of U.S. industry. ¶ The House Armed Services Committee is preparing a report on the death of OSS's Major William Holohan in Italy (TIME, Aug. 27). ¶ A special House committee will soon hold open hearings on the Katyn Forest massacre (TIME, Nov. 26). ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the District of Columbia will look into crime in the nation's capital. ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the Post Office & Civil Service will...
...wartime cloak and dagger murder in Italy of OSS mission chief...
...Italian front in December 1944, word reached OSS headquarters in Siena that Major William V. Holohan, chief of a secret mission far behind the German lines, had disappeared; the Army marked him down as one more brave man lost in the service of his country. Last week, 6½ years later, the Defense Department explained Major Holohan's disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned...
...more than two months, they roamed the hills around Lake Orta, 45 miles northwest of Milan, checking on partisan groups, radioing back coded reports to OSS headquarters in Siena, always playing a nerve-racking hide & seek with the enemy. One night, they lay flattened out in a rainswept field listening to Nazi convoys splashing down the road 100 yards away; for several days, they were hidden in a church altar vault while German troopers camped below...
...Fleischmann worked his way through the University of Buffalo Law School. With two brothers, he set up a law firm in Buffalo, went to work for the War Production Board in World War II. In 1943 he joined the Navy as a lieutenant, led a 100-man OSS mission into Burma to organize espionage...