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Wild Bill Donovan

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by Douglas Waller


  Irvine, Ralstone, 377

  isolationists, 55, 58, 61, 63, 123

  Istanbul, 155–57, 191–93, 195, 196, 197, 253–56, 261, 286, 337

  Italian Americans, 93–94, 142, 250, 251

  Italy, 58, 130, 131, 136, 142, 167, 175–83, 198, 237, 281

  Allied invasion of, 149, 175–82, 185, 227–30

  Donovan in, 52–53, 249–53, 296–97, 298

  Ethiopia and, 51–54, 176, 318

  Germans in, 176, 179, 185, 229–30, 249–52, 296, 317–18, 324

  intelligence of, 158, 286, 296

  Mussolini executed in, 319

  Mussolini’s ouster in, 176

  unconditional surrender and, 149, 179, 180, 181, 183

  war declared on U.S. by, 87

  in World War I, 53, 54

  Ives, Irving M., 351

  Jackson, Robert, 324–32, 343–49

  Japan, 58, 77–80, 100, 104, 121, 204–11, 215, 224, 232, 233, 286, 287, 297–301, 323, 331, 370

  atomic bomb used against, 1, 4, 332

  in Burma, 215–17

  in China, 78, 204–9, 211, 213, 214, 299, 322, 331

  Donovan in, 32–33

  Doolittle’s raid over, 88

  intelligence of, 157

  Lisbon embassy of, 157–59, 336

  peace feelers and, 298–301, 323

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 83–86, 300

  propaganda broadcasts of, 98

  unconditional surrender and, 149, 204

  Vatican embassy of, 257, 258

  Japanese Americans, 80, 89

  Jennings, Robert, 293–95

  Jews, Judaism, 13, 21–22, 54, 261, 265, 309, 317, 324, 331

  Jodl, Alfred, 345

  Joe-handlers, 169

  Johnson, Herschel, 287

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 122, 125, 129, 198, 220, 233, 252, 328–29, 366, 371

  Balkans and, 183, 275

  Donovan given more freedom by, 155, 164

  Donovan summoned before, 162–63

  Hungary and, 194, 196

  OSS moved to, 115–17, 143

  OSS psychological warfare and, 150, 151

  peace feelers and, 193

  postwar intelligence and, 308–12

  Sicily operation and, 173

  Soviet Union and, 221, 224, 225

  Torch and, 133, 135

  Jones, Mary Gardner, 354, 358, 359, 380

  Justice Department, U.S., 71, 115, 122, 311, 322, 329

  Donovan in, 38–41

  see also FBI

  Kachins, 215, 218

  K activity, 95

  Kallay, Miklós, 195–96

  Kaltenbach, Fred, 106

  Kangaroo project, 115

  Keitel, Wilhelm, 345

  Kennedy, John F., 371

  Kennedy, Joseph, 60, 62

  Kent, Sherman, 200–201

  Kessel, Albrecht von, 266

  Kesselring, Albert, 227, 229, 230, 249, 252, 253, 317

  Kilgore, Harley, 322

  Kilmer, Joyce, 19, 22

  Kim Ku, 323

  King, Ernest, 91, 118, 130, 282

  Kingsley, Rolfe, 200

  Kirali, Major, 194, 196

  Kirk, Alexander, 191–93

  Kirk, Grayson, 380

  Knothead, 217–18

  Knowland, Bill, 368

  Knox, Frank, 58–62, 66, 90, 112–13, 239–40

  new spy operation and, 69, 70–71

  at St. Regis, 114

  Kolbe, Fritz (George Wood), 148–49, 196, 237, 268, 304

  Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, 33

  Korea, 32, 206, 323, 332

  Korean Provisional Government, 323

  Korean War, 362, 363, 367

  Kreisau Circle, 191–93, 261

  Kriemhilde Stellung, 24–25, 28

  Krock, Arthur, 4, 85, 329

  K tablets, 102

  Ku Klux Klan, 34, 38, 133

  Kunming, 209, 214, 332

  Kuomintang, 205–8, 367

  labor unions, 44, 194, 351

  L activity, 95

  Lahousen, Erwin, 346, 347

  Landres-et-Saint-Georges, 24, 25, 26, 30, 35, 232, 381

  Langer, Walter, 263

  Langer, William, 86, 175, 193, 210, 221, 233, 237, 263, 313, 325, 337–38, 351

  Lansky, Meyer, 102

  Lasker, Albert, 377

  Lasker, Mary, 377

  Latin America, 71, 97, 109, 307, 329, 335

  Donovan banned from, 75–76, 114–15

  Leahy, William, 91, 225, 351, 352

  leaks, 119, 192, 199, 210, 225, 240, 251, 281, 300, 329–30, 386

  postwar intelligence and, 305, 309–13

  Lee, Duncan, 97, 355

  Legendre, Gertrude, 293–95, 302

  Lehman, Herbert, 43, 44

  Leisure, George, 378, 381

  Lemaigre-Dubreuil, Jacques (Peanuts), 133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 141

  Lend-Lease, 221, 222

  Lenihan, Michael, 24–25, 27, 28

  Lenin, Vladimir, 33

  Leverkühn, Paul, 54, 346

  Lindbergh, Charles, 67

  Lippmann, Walter, 61, 356, 357

  Lisbon, 157–60, 256–57, 289

  Japanese embassy in, 157–59, 336

  OSS office in, 129, 157–59, 161, 162

  London, 34, 68, 89, 168, 275, 276, 295

  Claridge’s in, 129, 134, 164, 235, 239, 240, 245, 315–16, 326, 330

  Donovan in, 59, 63–64, 129–30, 135, 164–66, 187, 235–40, 248, 269, 314, 315–16, 318, 326, 330

  Eisenhower’s headquarters in, 138–39

  Malvergne smuggled to, 136–37

  NKGB in, 224

  OSS in, 73, 103–4, 115, 129, 203, 236, 240, 248, 268, 269–70, 290, 325

  Lopez, Blanche, 13

  Los Angeles, Calif., 42, 57, 86

  Lothian, Lord, 59, 63

  Lovell, Malcolm, 108–9

  Lovell, Stanley P., 101–4, 232, 233

  L tablets, 102, 245

  Lubin, Isadore, 306, 313–14

  Lucas, Scott, 322

  Luce, Henry, 383

  Luciano, Lucky, 102

  Luftwaffe, 58, 59, 60, 198, 246, 267

  Luxembourg, 58, 294

  Lyon, 134, 147, 168, 170, 171, 267, 269

  MacArthur, Douglas, 41, 52, 320

  in World War I, 19, 23–25, 27, 28, 30, 232

  in World War II, 88, 121, 203, 204, 231–34, 275, 297, 328–29

  McCarthy, Joseph, 355, 364, 365

  McCormick, Robert, 61, 304, 305, 309, 311–12

  McDowell, Robert, 276, 277, 278

  McFadden, Thomas, 56

  Macfarland, Lanning “Packy,” 155–57, 192, 193, 196, 197, 253–56

  McKellar, Kenneth, 122

  McKellar bill, 122

  McLean, Evalyn Walsh, 112–13

  Maclean, Fitzroy, 186, 187, 276, 277

  MacLeish, Archibald, 73, 79

  Madrid, 159–63, 289

  Magic, 147, 178, 389

  code breakers, 78, 98, 159

  Donovan denied access to, 118, 119

  Magruder, John, 201–3, 230–31, 298–99, 301, 308, 338, 388

  Malfatti, Franco, 229, 251

  Malvergne, René (Victor Prechak), 136–39

  Mannes, Marya, 160

  Mansfield, Walter, 184

  Mao Tse-tung, 205–6, 209, 355, 362, 367

  Maquis, 237–38, 247–48, 268

  Marines, U.S., 131, 297, 370

  Marret, Mario (Toto), 168–71, 264

  Marshall, George, 88–91, 98, 118, 119, 121, 203, 262, 281, 282, 286, 287, 290, 312

  “Aunt Jemima” and, 101

  Donovan’s correspondence with, 143

  Donovan spy service opposed by, 69, 71

  ethnic armies nixed by, 142

  Iberian crises and, 159, 162

  Normandy invasion and, 237, 239

  OSS transfer and, 115–16

  at Quebec conference, 176–77, 180

  Torch and, 135, 136

&n
bsp; Martini operation, 271–72

  Massingham, 141–42

  Mast, Charles Emmanuel, 136, 137, 139

  Mayo Clinic, 376–77

  Mediterranean region, 35

  in World War II, 60, 64–65, 67, 86, 142–43, 149, 164, 166, 183, 199, 226–29, 241, 251, 264, 276, 297, 329, 337

  Menicanti, Clemente, see Coniglio

  Menoher, Charles, 24, 26, 28

  Menzies, Stewart, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 143, 165, 166, 168, 237, 294, 315

  Metropolitan Motors Overseas Incorporated, 209, 210

  Meuse River, 24, 29

  Mexico, 86, 114–15, 215

  MI5, 60

  MI6, 60, 117, 123, 143, 148, 156, 165, 168, 196, 294, 315

  Middle East, 65, 67, 130, 224, 226

  Mihailović, Draža, 165–66, 184–85, 275–80

  Miles, Milton “Mary,” 206–8, 211–14, 297

  Miles, Sherman, 69, 75, 117

  Mitchell, Harry, 24, 27, 28, 29

  Mitchell, William, 40, 41

  Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, 222

  Moltke, Helmuth Graf von, 191–93, 255, 261

  Moltke, Helmut Johann Ludwig von (Moltke the Younger), 191

  Montgomery, Sir Bernard, 174, 176, 179

  Morde, Theodore, 192

  Morgan, J. P., 48

  Morgan, Junius, 93

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 67, 317

  Morlion, Felix (Blackie), 256–57

  Morocco, French, 132–33, 134, 136–37

  Morocco, Spanish, 131, 133, 137, 141

  Morris, Roland, 33

  Moscow, 219–24, 335

  Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 177, 178

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 177–78, 204–5, 212, 219, 358, 379

  movies and film, 6, 54–55, 119, 149, 204, 243, 285, 319, 326, 384

  Mowrer, Edgar, 59, 62, 78

  Munich, 107, 154, 271, 319–20

  Murphy, Jim, 377, 380

  Murphy, Robert Daniel, 131–41, 168, 385

  Murrow, Edward R., 84–85, 141, 309, 357

  Mussolini, Benito, 51–53, 55, 176, 180, 262, 296, 319

  Mutual Broadcasting System, 62

  Myitkyina, 214, 215

  Nagasaki, 1, 332

  Naples, 227–28, 250

  Nashville, USS, 233–34

  National Intelligence Authority, 308, 352

  National Liberation Front, Greek (EAM), 187–88, 280, 356

  National Parks police, 99

  National Republican Greek League (EDES), 187

  National Security Council, 352, 362

  National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), 35, 42, 54, 148, 257, 265, 330, 348

  see also Germany, Nazi

  Navy, U.S., 58, 61–63, 65, 73, 121, 151, 204, 295, 297, 387

  China and, 206–8, 212

  David Donovan, Sr., in, 143, 153, 172–73, 178–79, 239, 283, 331–32, 343, 358

  Donovan’s schemes checked by, 88

  intelligence in, 69, 70, 72, 78, 95, 104, 113, 114, 116, 123, 143, 164, 173, 306–7, 352

  in invasion of Sicily, 172–75

  Normandy invasion and, 237, 239–43

  Pearl Harbor and, 84, 85

  postwar intelligence and, 306–7, 308, 310, 322, 352

  Torch and, 136, 143

  Nazi agents and sympathizers, in U.S., 62, 71, 88–89, 94, 109

  Nazira, 214–18, 299

  Netherlands, 58, 119, 256, 322

  New Deal, New Dealers, 44, 53, 55, 305, 328

  New Delhi, 204–5, 215

  New Guinea, 233–34

  Newsweek, 333

  New York (state), 42–44, 98

  New York City, 13–14, 16, 19, 23, 31, 35, 44–48, 54, 66, 79, 83, 124, 177–78, 257, 295, 320, 338, 350, 363

  British intelligence operations in, 62–63

  Donovan’s law firm in, 41–42, 47, 56, 92, 109–11, 353, 354

  Donovan’s weekend trips to, 78–79, 83

  Nazi attack on, 88

  OSS front company in, 97

  refugees in, 96, 109–11

  St. Regis Hotel in, 112, 113, 114, 118–19, 135

  Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury in, 209, 210

  New York Daily News, 304

  New York Senate, 350–51

  New York Times, 3–4, 41, 85, 125, 309, 329, 383

  Niagara University, 12–13

  Nimitz, Chester, 1, 204, 231–32, 299, 328–29

  Nixon, Pat, 368

  Nixon, Richard, 368, 369

  NKGB (People’s Commissariat for State Security), 221–26, 284–85, 287, 288–89, 355

  Nonquitt, Mass., 39, 43, 176, 284, 326, 337, 375–76

  Normandy invasion, 235–48, 268, 270, 336, 381

  North Africa, 96, 121, 164, 166, 167, 237

  Allied invasion of, 89, 90, 91, 121, 125, 129–45, 160

  French underground in, 133

  Germany in, 86, 125, 133, 136, 257

  Vichy French in, 130–41, 144

  see also specific places

  Northern Ireland, 240–41

  Norway, Norwegians, 58, 286, 324, 362

  Nunn, Guy, 194–98

  Nuremberg, 330–31, 341–48

  Obolensky, Prince Serge, 96, 180–81

  O’Brien, John Lord, 14, 33

  O’Brien, Pat, 54

  O’Daniel, John “Iron Mike,” 369, 370, 375

  Odo, Father, 110

  Office of Strategic Services, see OSS

  Office of War Information, U.S., 116, 138, 150–51, 166

  oil, 104, 160, 195, 226

  Oklahoma!, 177–78, 204, 379

  Omaha Beach, 244, 246

  165th Regiment, 19–31, 35

  opium, 209, 367

  Oran, 137–40

  Organisation de la Résistance dans l’Armée, 238

  OSS (movie), 6

  OSS (Office of Strategic Services), 360, 362, 365, 370, 387–89

  as amateurs, 76, 93–94, 117, 162, 388

  anti-Hitler activities of, 101, 106–11, 121, 144, 150, 253, 263

  in Bern, 145–50, 237, 267, 269, 270

  British division of territory with, 130, 141–42, 164–66, 183–86

  British information sharing with, 117, 122, 129, 164, 186, 290

  Coordinator of Information Office at, 71–72, 74–75, 99, 106, 107

  Corsica, Sardinia, and, 176–77, 180–81, 222, 250

  decoding unit of, 118

  development of, 2, 69–74, 203

  Donovan’s rifts in, 103–4, 199, 201–3, 230, 231–32

  embassy break-ins and, 120–28

  end of, 1–6, 333–38, 351–52

  executive committee of, 201–2

  expenses of, 76, 95, 96, 97, 99–100, 115, 137–38, 173, 210, 251–52, 326, 333, 336

  faulty intelligence of, 86, 87, 88, 147, 249–56, 304

  FBI spying on, 4, 76–77, 361

  Foreign Information Service of, 84, 104, 116

  Foreign Nationalities of, 96, 202

  formal charter of, 143

  front companies for, 97–98, 156, 209–10, 254

  headquarters of, see Washington, D.C., OSS headquarters in

  in Iberian Peninsula, 157–63

  in Italy invasion and occupation, 178–82, 227–30, 249–53, 298

  K activity of, 95

  Kangaroo project and, 115

  L activity of, 95

  Morale Operations of, 150–51, 173–74

  morale problems in, 201–2

  moved to Joint Chiefs of Staff, 115–17, 143

  movies about, 6

  naming of, 116

  Office of Scientific Research and Development of, 101–4

  Operational Group of, 202, 227

  Oral Intelligence Unit of, 96

  peace feelers and, 190–99

  Presentation Branch of, 313, 325–26, 364

  propaganda broadcasts and operations of, 84, 85, 87, 104, 108, 118, 150–51, 173–74, 178

  Reporting Board of, 298–99

  Republican color of, 7
7, 328

  research and analysis section of, 73, 87, 96, 201, 221, 233, 237, 263, 313, 325, 337–38

  Russian infiltration of, 355

  Secret Intelligence of, 96, 158, 201

  security at, 94, 118–19

  Sicily invasion and, 172–76

  Special Operations of, 96, 176

  staff recruited for, 73, 93–97

  Torch and, 129–44

  transportation for, 99, 142, 166–67, 185, 188, 190, 194, 200, 210–11

  unconventional projects of, 100–105

  “OSS Hymn,” 235

  Ossipov, Alexandr (Gaik Ovakimyan), 223, 225–26

  OSS University of Palermo, 175

  Otto of Habsburg, Archduke, 110

  Ourcq River, 22, 30, 381

  Overlord, 235–48, 264

  Overseas Writers Special Committee of Inquiry, 356, 357

  Pacific Fleet, U.S., 86, 88

  Pack, Amy Elizabeth Thorpe “Betty” (Cynthia), 120–24, 127

  Pack, Arthur, 122

  Pan American Airways, 51, 95

  Papen, Franz von, 192

  Paper operation, 367

  Papurt, Maxwell, 293–94

  Paramount Pictures, 99

  Paris, 23, 29, 121, 132, 238, 266, 289, 292, 293, 294, 318–19, 326, 329

  Park, Richard, Jr., 335–37

  Patch, Alexander, 264–65, 267

  Patterson, Eleanor “Cissy,” 304, 309, 311–12

  Patton, George, 241, 267, 270, 281, 294

  in invasion of Sicily, 174–75, 176

  Torch and, 134, 137, 140, 141, 175

  peace feelers, 190–99, 261, 266, 298–301, 317–18, 323

  Pearl Harbor, 83–91, 124, 220, 240, 300

  Pearson, Drew, 229, 280–81, 329–30

  Penny Farthing, 167–71, 264

  People to People Foundation, 374

  Perkins, Frances, 83

  Pershing, John “Black Jack,” 18, 22, 24, 29, 30, 35, 93

  Pétain, Philippe, 121, 134, 140

  Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 275, 276, 278, 279

  Phao Sriyanon, 362, 366, 367, 370

  Phibun Songkhram, 362, 366

  Philippines, 41, 88, 121, 297, 367

  Philips Company, 95, 117

  Phillips, Wallace Banta, 95, 114, 131, 155

  Phumiphon Adunyadet, King of Thailand, 365, 367

  Pius XII, Pope, 256–58, 297–301, 327

  Plymouth, 240, 241, 247

  Poland, 18, 119, 192, 303, 323

  in World War II, 50–51, 55

  Polk, George, 356–57

  Pond, the, 117–18, 283, 290, 307, 336

  Port Lyautey, 136, 139

  Portugal, 89, 157–60, 256–57, 290

  OSS in, 155, 157–59, 161, 162, 336

  Potsdam conference (1945), 332

  Poynter, Nelson, 86–87

  prisoners of war (POWs), 252–53, 271, 293–94, 322, 323

  Pro Deo project, 256–57

  Prohibition, 34, 36, 41

  “Project George,” 97

  psychological operations, 70, 72, 116, 117, 150–51, 221

  Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Ministry, German, 106

 

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