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...begun, he said, when he was a Marine officer attached to OSS, smuggling arms to Tito's Communists in their guerrilla war against the Nazis. He was "tremendously impressed, deeply affected, by the work the Partisans were doing. I became all steamed up ... There was something churning around in me, and I couldn't handle it." After the war, he decided "to go into this political thing and try to do something to make conditions better in the world." In June 1946, he joined the Communist Party...
During the war, he helped train senior officers in military government and worked with the OSS in Washington. In 1949 he returned to Germany as a visiting expert on education and helped reestablish the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik which had been dissolved by the Nazis. He also visited his old colleague, Theodor Heuss, now President of the West German Republic...
George Petemezas seemed to be a young man with promise. Born in Pittsburgh of Greek parents, dark-eyed, natty George joined the Army before Pearl Harbor, served honorably as an OSS agent in Yugoslavia...
...OSS during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...
Acheson pointed out that many of State's loyalty problems traced back to 1945 and 1946, when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...