Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...case took interest and importance from the fact that Holohan's death resulted in North Italian Communists' getting thousands of guns which backed their bid for political control of the area after the war. Some of these arms are still turning up when police raid the secret arsenals of the underground Communist army...
Hide & Seek. In September 1944, while Allied armies inched painfully up the Italian boot, three Americans from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services parachuted down on Mt. Mottarone in northern Italy, 100 miles beyond the battle lines. Big cargo chutes floated down arms and a powerful radio. Their mission, which bore the code name "Chrysler," was to make arrangements with partisan groups-Communists, Socialists, Catholics, independents-for the supply of arms. The U.S. recognized the value of partisans who killed Germans behind the lines, but some U.S. officials also realized that certain of the partisans were more interested in fighting...
...rifles, Tommy guns and ammunition. Holohan had arranged that this first drop was to go to nonCommunists. Instead, the Communists tried to grab the arms. Holohan was furious, but agreed to a meeting with the Red leader. The man he faced was Vincenzo Moscatelli, now a member of the Italian Senate...
...this point, the story of danger, difficulty and friction can be matched by dozens of others in the secret annals of operations behind enemy lines. The account of what happened next is drawn from the confessions of three men, confessions believed by the Italian police and the U.S. Defense Department...