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...nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful air mattress" had to be left behind. Later, disgusted by the effects of "neoFascist" Churchillian policies in Italy and the protracted Italian land campaign, he asked to be transferred to the OSS...
...Hollywood, where every sleeve holds a concealed dagger, producers were more than usually wary. On top of processing scads of mystery pictures and several hush-hush mellers about the OSS, Hollywood had a cloak-&-dagger drama of its own: Who will produce the first big atom-bomb picture...
Even before OSS began to function, Bill Donovan was convinced that such an agency should be set up, to work not only in war but in peacetime. In 1941 he sent a confidential memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining a plan...
John C. L. Hulley '44, a veteran of the Army Air Corps and OSS in Italy, has been elected chairman of the Liberal Union for the next term, officers of that organization announced this week. New vice-chairman and head of the Liberal Action Committee is Harry A. Mendelsohn '48, while Timothy P. Miller '48 was chosen as secretary and C. Taibi '49, treasurer. Other officials selected were: Thomas H. Caulfield '48, chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee; and Richard T. Gill '48, editor of the Progressive...
...candidates for Station S-and for six other "assessment centers" eventually set up by OSS in the U.S. and the Far East- were carefully selected from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, both officers and enlisted men, and some from civilian life. The volunteers were delivered to Station S in groups of 18. In anonymous fatigue clothes, and using fictitious names, they spent three days being observed, studied and tested. They lived and worked with each other and with the station staff - seven top-flight psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, assisted by eight psychology students...