OSS Headquarters London
Grosvenor Square, in the exclusive Mayfair district of the city, is where during World War II most of the Americans could be found. ...
22
May
03
May
Ryder Street
We found the building that housed OSS Counterespionage, known as X-2, during World War II ...
16
Mar
Carve Her Name With Pride
Favorite (1958) A beautiful English shopgirl with a small daughter joins British intelligence after her husband is killed in North Africa. ...
12
Mar
Undercover Girl
(1947) Elizabeth P. "Betty" MacDonald joined the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in 1943. After the war, she wrote her memoirs, this book, and it is a treasure....
07
Feb
The Long Voyage Home
(1940) John Ford directed this film about an English cargo ship traveling from the West Indies to Baltimore to England. ...
17
Dec
The Bishop’s Wife
Favorite (1947) Cary Grant stars as an angel who wants to help a Bishop and his wife get their lives back on track....
04
Nov
Östermalm
Östermalm is another district in Stockholm where much of the activity occurred for the Americans who worked at the American Legation and the OSS....
21
Oct
Penetration
When I was going through sixty-year-old files and boxes from WWII OSS Stockholm at the National Archives this past week, I found several references to "Penetration" of the USAAF Internees by German agents. ...
14
Oct
National Archives College Park
On Monday, I flew to College Park, MD (just outside Washington, DC) to spend four days at the National Archives facility there. This is where the declassified records of the Office of Strategic Services are stored. ...