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by Douglas Waller


  Putzell, Edwin, 97, 203, 230–31, 234, 249, 250, 253, 289, 312, 321

  Quebec conference (Quadrant; 1943), 176–78, 180, 190

  Quinn, William, 264–65

  Raichle, Frank, 37, 41, 383

  Ranger, 276–79

  Rebecca, 137, 140

  Red Army, 191–92, 193, 195, 221, 279, 284–87, 304, 315, 319

  refugees, 96, 109–11, 131, 156, 173, 202, 211, 271, 287, 366, 375

  Reilly, Hildegarde, 254

  Replacement Army, German, 260, 261

  Republicans, Republican Party, 10, 13, 15, 53, 62, 155, 225, 252, 283, 303, 321, 324, 325, 328, 350–51, 360, 371

  Donovan’s speeches to, 42, 43–44, 55

  in election of 1928, 41

  in election of 1936, 52

  in New York, 33, 35, 41–44

  postwar intelligence and, 305, 306, 311

  selected for coalition cabinet, 56, 58

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 148, 265

  Richards, Atherton, 85

  Richards, Guy, 88

  Robertson, Walter, 372

  Robson, Eleanor, 16, 17

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 75–76, 97, 115

  Rockefeller Foundation, 18

  Rocquefort, Jacques de, 167–71, 264, 265

  Romania, 64, 65, 154, 155, 165, 183, 195, 226, 284, 285, 290

  Rome, 52–53, 158, 179, 227–30, 249–53, 256–58, 265–67, 289, 296–97, 298, 300, 302, 327

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 44, 84, 93, 104, 318

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 55–80, 83–91, 104–9, 114–17, 149–51, 159, 213, 222, 251–52, 257, 262, 264, 284, 287, 297–314, 317–21, 335–36

  Balkans and, 142, 183, 184–85, 187–88, 190, 275, 276, 278–79, 280

  Churchill’s communications with, 65, 84, 187–88, 275

  coalition cabinet formed by, 55–56

  at conferences, 149, 164, 176–77, 190, 192, 200, 204, 298–304, 312

  death of, 318–19, 320, 335

  declaration of war speech of, 85, 86

  Donovan as envoy of, 59–68

  Donovan compared with, 55

  Donovan’s correspondence with, 110, 114, 122, 134, 142, 151, 238, 246–47, 261, 283, 288, 310, 312

  Donovan’s memos to, 70, 77, 100–101, 305, 306, 309, 386

  Donovan’s relationship with, 2, 14, 44, 55, 77, 94, 104–5, 119, 151, 190, 312–13

  education of, 14, 44

  in elections, 42–44, 59, 61, 66, 258, 283

  executive orders of, 71, 116, 151, 305, 308, 309, 310

  FBI and, 122

  fireside chats of, 86–87

  French skills of, 104, 134

  health problems of, 302, 312, 317

  Japanese Americans interned by, 89

  McKellar bill and, 122

  Normandy invasion and, 237, 238, 243, 246–47, 248

  OSS Soviet mission and, 220, 221, 224–25, 226

  peace feelers and, 191, 192, 266, 299

  postwar intelligence and, 305–14, 333, 352

  secret fund of, 71, 73, 74, 95, 96, 99–100, 131

  secretiveness of, 69–70

  spy service idea and, 69–72

  Stalin’s strains with, 220

  Torch and, 131, 134, 139, 141

  Truman compared with, 320–21

  unconditional surrender and, 149–50, 266

  war crimes and, 323, 324

  in Warm Springs, 313, 314, 317, 318

  Roosevelt, James, 73, 83, 97

  Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 174

  Roper, Elmo, 72, 73, 117, 202, 283

  Rosemary Hall, 16, 46

  Rosenbaum, Joseph, 306

  Rothschild bankers, 54

  Rouge Bouquet, 21–22

  Royal Air Force, 64, 166–69

  Rumsey, Dexter, Jr., 33, 37, 376

  Rumsey, Dexter Phelps, Sr., 16, 17

  Rumsey, Ruth, see Donovan, Ruth Rumsey

  Rumsey, Susan, 16–17, 18, 32, 43

  Rustov, Alexander (Magnolia), 191

  Ryan, Frank, 161

  safes, cracking of, 120–21, 123, 125–26

  Saigon, 37, 369–70

  Saint-Georges, France, 24, 26

  Saint Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, 12

  Saint Mary’s Academy and Industrial Female School (Miss Nardin’s Academy), 11–12

  Saint-Mihiel offensive, 23, 24

  Salerno, 178–79, 182, 190, 227, 229, 239

  Samuel Chase, USS, 172–73, 174, 175, 178

  Sardinia, 176–77, 222

  Sargent, John Garibaldi, 40

  Saturn Club, 15, 36–37, 38, 41, 44

  Sauerkraut operations, 252–53

  Scamporino, Vincent (Scamp), 173, 250, 296, 298, 300, 301

  Scattolini, Virgilio (Vessel), 297–302

  Schacht, Hjalmar, 345, 348

  Schlesinger, Arthur, 93

  Schwab, Francis X., 34, 35

  Schwarz, Alfred, see Dogwood

  SD, 254, 316

  Secret Intelligence Service, British, 60, 165, 168

  Seitz, Albert, 184

  Senate, U.S., 35, 38, 41, 321, 363, 364

  Serbia, Serbs, 18, 165–66, 184–85, 279

  Setaccioli, Fillippo, 298, 302

  7th Army, 174, 175, 176, 264–65, 267

  7th Corps, 244, 245–46

  sex, 150, 321, 335, 342, 353, 361

  espionage and, 120, 122, 123, 209

  Sextant (Cairo conference; 1943), 200, 204

  Sforza, Count Carlo, 96

  Shadel, Willard, 241, 243

  Shakespeare, William, 2, 200–201

  Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (S project), 209–10

  Shepardson, Whitney, 158, 192–93

  Shepherd project, 275–76

  Sherwood, Robert, 72, 75, 80, 84, 86, 104, 116

  Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 158

  Shingle operation, 229

  Siberia, 33

  Sicilian Americans, 173, 250

  Sicily, 131, 149, 164, 172–76, 179

  SIM, 286, 296

  Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO), 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 259

  69th “Irish” Regiment, 19

  see also 165th Regiment

  Skibbereen, 9

  Smith, Alfred E., 35, 41

  Smith, Harold, 76, 97, 115, 116, 306, 312, 313, 320, 322, 333–34, 337–38

  Smith, Jane, 376, 377, 380

  Smith, Walter Bedell “Beetle,” 281–82, 284, 326, 329, 353, 360–64, 370

  Sofia, 65, 285, 291

  Sophoulis, Themistocles, 355–56

  Souers, Sidney, 351, 352

  South America, 75, 87, 89, 115

  Southeast Asia, 130, 177–78, 204, 205, 206, 208, 362–73

  Southeast Asia Command, 204–5, 219

  South Vietnam, 371, 375

  Southwest Pacific Command, 204, 234

  Soviet Union, 4, 86, 96, 109, 110, 198, 204, 261, 266, 296, 305, 317–18, 323, 335

  atomic bomb and, 225, 332

  Donovan in, 219–24

  Eastern Front and, 119, 141, 155, 183, 191, 192, 284–89, 317

  German occupation zone of, 289, 303, 313, 319, 320

  intelligence and, 220–26

  Japan’s relations with, 299, 300, 301

  OSS and, 117, 219–26, 264, 284–85, 307

  postwar, 187, 286, 350, 352, 353, 354, 357, 367, 374

  United Nations and, 303, 313

  war crimes and, 325, 326, 327, 330–31

  Yugoslavia and, 276, 279

  Spain, 65, 124–27, 130, 237, 299

  German relations with, 121, 124–25, 159, 160

  OSS in, 155, 159–63, 336, 355

  Washington embassy of, 87, 121, 125–27

  Spanish Morocco, 125

  Sparrow team, 194–99, 253, 255

  Special Operations Executive (SOE; Baker Street Irregulars), 129–30, 165, 168, 176, 183–84, 187, 188, 236, 238, 253

  Maquis and, 237–38

  Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 95, 256

  sports, 46, 289
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br />   football, 2, 12, 13, 17, 79, 83, 173

  SS, 238, 265, 316, 317, 320, 325, 343, 348

  Staktopoulos, Gregory, 356–58

  Stalin, Joseph, 55, 220–23, 243, 275, 276, 283, 285, 286

  at conferences, 192, 200, 298–301, 303–4, 332

  peace feelers and, 191, 192, 193, 317–18

  Stark, Harold “Betty,” 239–40

  Starr, Cornelius Vander, 209–10

  State Department, U.S., 18, 33, 60, 73, 87, 97, 99, 104, 110, 131, 160, 192, 198, 202, 209, 275, 300, 313, 323, 336, 354, 357

  A. Dulles in, 146

  ambassador to Thailand and, 362–63, 365, 368, 371

  Canaris monitored by, 154

  codes and, 287, 288

  intelligence in, 2, 69, 70, 306–7

  John Foster Dulles in, 361, 363, 369, 371, 372, 373

  Latin America and, 109, 115

  Nazi bank accounts and, 109

  Pearl Harbor and, 85–86

  postwar intelligence and, 306–7, 308, 322, 334, 338, 351–52

  “Project George” and, 97

  Soviet Union and, 220–21

  Turkish policy and, 156

  war crimes and, 323

  Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk von, 260, 262, 345

  Steinbeck, John, 100

  Stella Polaris, 287, 289

  Stephenson, Bill, 62–63, 69, 70–71, 87, 97, 122–24, 126, 129, 283, 320, 383

  on Kolbe, 149

  Normandy invasion and, 243

  Stettinius, Edward, 288, 313

  Stilwell, Joseph “Vinegar Joe,” 205–8, 210, 214, 215

  Stimson, Henry, 58, 61, 71–72, 75, 77, 90, 91 101, 248

  Stockholm, 148, 195, 286, 287, 288

  Stone, Harlan, 13–14, 38, 40

  Strategic Air Command (SAC), 371

  Strategic Services Unit, 351

  Strong, George V., 117–18, 125, 134, 224, 307, 335

  Donovan sabotage efforts of, 150–51, 155

  Iberian crises and, 158–59, 162, 163

  Suarez, Alfred, 194–98

  Šubašić, Ivan, 275–76, 278, 279

  Sullivan & Cromwell, 146

  Summerall, Charles P., 24, 26–29

  Sunrise, 317–18

  Supreme Court, U.S., 40, 42, 350, 368

  Sussex project, 237–38, 239

  Sweden, 87, 286–88, 290

  Switzerland, 48, 145–50, 155, 226, 259, 267, 269, 295, 304

  Taft, Robert, 360

  Taft, William Howard, 14

  Tai Li, 206–14, 219, 259, 297

  Taiwan, 363, 367

  Tamm, Edward, 310, 311

  Tangier, 131, 132, 133, 137, 141, 142

  Taylor, Edmond, 204–5, 219

  Taylor, Myron, 300–301

  Tehran conference (1943), 192, 200, 204, 221

  television, 100

  Thailand, Thais, 312, 331, 362–73

  Third Army, 267, 294

  13 Rue Madeleine (movie), 6

  Thomas, Gregory, 161–62, 163

  Thompson, Dorothy, 47, 191

  Thompson, Jim, 365, 368

  Thomsen, Hans, 108–9

  Tibet, 34, 104–5

  Tikander, Wilho “Ty,” 286–89

  Tito, Josip Broz, 165–66, 184–86, 274–80

  Tolstoy, Count Ilya, 104–5

  Tompkins, Peter, 227–30, 249–52

  Torch, 129–44, 168, 174, 175

  Murphy’s request for delay of, 137

  radio broadcasts and, 130, 132, 137, 138

  Toulmin, John, 185, 253, 254

  T project, 111

  Train, Harold, 113

  Treasury Department, U.S., 67, 99, 100

  Treviranus, Gottfried, 110–11

  Trident Conference (1943), 164

  Tripartite Pact, 58, 67

  Trohan, Walter, 61–62, 304–5, 309–14, 328–29, 330, 352, 386

  Truman, Bess, 320, 335

  Truman, Harry, 2–6, 283, 320–28, 330, 332–38, 347, 349–53, 356, 363, 370, 378

  Donovan’s relationship with, 4–6, 319, 321–22, 374

  OSS disbanded by, 2–5, 351–52

  postwar intelligence and, 322–23, 326–28, 333–35, 338, 349, 351–53, 361

  Tully, Grace, 61, 87, 299, 303, 314, 317, 321

  Tunis, 132, 138, 173–74

  Tunisia, 131–33, 137, 141, 144, 157

  Tunney, Gene, 63

  Turkey, 65, 191–92, 193, 199, 226

  OSS in, 155–57, 192, 197, 253–55, 285, 290, 336

  Tuscaloosa, USS, 240–43, 247, 248

  Twelve Apostles, 132, 135

  U-boat submarines, 58, 60, 95

  Ujszaszi, Stephen, 195–98

  Ultra, 60, 147, 164, 178, 179, 230, 274, 389

  United Nations (U.N.), 303, 313, 367

  Utah Beach, 240, 242–43, 244, 246, 248, 381

  Vafiadis, Markos, 356, 357

  Valkyrie, 259–60

  Vandenberg, Hoyt, 352, 353

  vanden Heuvel, William, 365, 368–72, 374, 379, 382

  Vanderbilt, William H., III, 93

  Vatican, 95, 256–58, 265–66, 297–302, 331

  Vaughan, Harry, 321, 334, 335, 336, 353

  Vessel, see Scattolini, Virgilio

  Veterans of OSS, 360, 387

  Vichy, 132, 140

  Vichy French, 121–24, 130–41, 144, 156, 170

  Viet Minh, 362, 369, 370, 371

  Vietnam, 362, 363, 369–71, 375

  Villa Fortino, 182, 277–78

  Vittoria, 228, 229–30, 250

  Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, 176

  Wadsworth, James, 23, 34, 35, 40–41

  Waetjen, Eduard, 154, 260–62

  Walker, A. V., 156, 253

  Wallace, Henry, 83, 112–13

  Wallendorf, 293, 294

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 378–82, 387

  war crimes, 317, 323–27, 329, 330–31, 341–48

  War Department, U.S., 5, 35, 54, 67, 75, 101, 117, 126, 151, 203, 224, 253, 280, 284, 293–94, 324, 330, 336, 351

  A. Dulles’s reports to, 147

  postwar intelligence and, 307–11, 313, 322, 334, 338, 352

  Warlimont, Walter, 54, 345, 346

  Warm Springs, Ga., 313, 314, 317, 318

  War Relief Commission, 18

  Washington, D.C., 40, 112–13, 382

  Churchill’s visit to, 89–91

  embassies in, 68, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 87, 90, 108–9, 119–27, 225, 289

  Georgetown home in, 38, 39, 41, 69, 72, 92, 153, 193–94, 259, 274, 283, 292, 303, 319, 349

  OSS headquarters in (the Kremlin), 73–74, 84, 85, 92, 93, 98–99, 100, 118, 138, 173, 193–94, 200, 205, 207, 208, 299–300, 318–19, 355

  Washington Post, 280, 309, 349

  Washington Star, 75

  Washington Times-Herald, 304–5, 309, 310, 328–29, 347

  Watson, Pa, 335

  Weeks, John, 35

  Wehrmacht, 119, 198, 221, 227, 246, 252, 253, 261, 271, 286, 294, 315, 316, 337, 345

  peace feelers and, 190, 192

  surrender of, 272

  Weizsäcker, Baron Ernst von (Jackpot II), 265–67

  Welles, Sumner, 114

  Western Electrik Kompani, 156, 254

  White, George, 102–3

  Whitney, William “Bill,” 73, 103–4

  Wilbrandt, Hans (Hyacinth), 191

  Williams, Lansing, 254–55

  Williams, Mona, 182, 277, 278

  Willkie, Wendell, 66

  Willoughby, Charles, 232, 233, 234

  Wilson, Henry Maitland “Jumbo,” 186, 188, 276–77

  Wilson, Hugh, 265–66

  Wilson, Woodrow, 33

  Winchell, Walter, 76

  Wisner, Frank, 256, 285

  Wolff, Karl, 317

  Wolf’s Lair headquarters, 259, 260

  Wood, Robert E., 50, 51

  World War I, 2, 18–31, 52–55, 110, 111, 146, 159, 222, 232, 321, 345, 381

  World War II, see specific combatants, operat
ions, and units

  X-2, 164, 201, 253–54

  Yalta conference (1945), 298–304, 312, 335

  Yankee, 47, 57, 143

  Yarrow, Bernard, 276

  Yugoslav Americans, 89, 142

  Yugoslavia, 65, 67, 165–66, 183–88, 190, 222, 274–80, 355

  Yukon Territory, 50–51

  Z, 157–59

  Zurich, 148, 154, 260

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