Italy’s Hidden Outposts and the R&A Personnel Ledger
Analysts in Italy watched the Mediterranean Theater while their own names were indexed for a coming war, a record preserved in a finding aid that masks the ghosts of the field.
By Constance Bell ·
Italy
Roman War Plans and the OSS Personnel Ledger
German and Italian military planners met in Rome to coordinate North African strikes, yet the men who fed this intelligence to the OSS remain obscured.
By Constance Bell ·
Ginny II Executions and the Caserta Command Gap
Fifteen men were executed under Hitler’s Commando Order in 1944, but the records of the station that sent them remain stripped of their strategic intent
By Harlan Pryce ·
Vatican Borders and the X-2 Census of Italian Communists
For decades, the extent of the OSS's reach into the Vatican and the Italian banking system remained obscured, leaving a gap where the names of recruited assets should be.
By Marcus Boone ·
SOE Jumpers Targeted Retreating Germans in Operation Herring
British agents plummeted into Italy to break the German retreat, an operation whose specific costs remain buried in files like HS 6/792.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Washington dumped covert political support for Italy in 1967
Italian voters were steered by secret cash for years, a program kept "Secret; Eyes Only" until the 303 Committee decided the investment no longer had more than a peripheral impact.
By Desmond Okafor ·
1,500 Workers for One Plant: Todor Zhivkov Admits Tech Gap
Todor Zhivkov masked an industrial nightmare with diplomatic praise, admitting Bulgaria needed 1,500 workers to run a plant that Japan operated with only 400.
By Roy Castellano ·
Ford halts $4.8 million secret operation in Italy
House committee leaks and the fall of Premier Moro stopped a $4.8 million operation that Bill Colby denied had spent a cent, though details of the program's stages stay blacked out.
By Harlan Pryce ·
15 Americans Executed After OSS Planners Missed the Coast
Fifteen Americans were executed under Hitler's Commando Order after the OSS repeatedly failed to land them in the correct square during sabotage attempts in Italy.
By Harlan Pryce ·