U.S. opens WWII spy files
Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 10:54 PM
WASHINGTON - Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with ex-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg. All were spies.
At a time when the Nazis threatened the world, they served in an international espionage ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The secret comes out Thursday: all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the U.S. The National Archives also will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.
No comments:
Post a Comment