Maintained by the Office of the Chief, the records of the ETO Field Office show how the OSS reduced the French population to a set of sociological variables to be managed after the invasion.
A novelist and a fashion designer were recruited by the British to blow up French railways, but the record of their mission was stripped to a skeletal summary.
A Russian agent spent decades operating under four different names to infiltrate foreign capitals, a career detailed in files once held by the British Security Service.
French psi researchers were pushed into self-funded solitude and forced to abandon their work as a state quota system blocked their path to official university chairs.
North Vietnamese troops edge toward Saigon while diplomats offer lip service, as Nixon tracks French bids to redraw borders and 10 students storm the US embassy in Tokyo.