For decades, the reasons for scrubbing missions from the wartime record remained hidden, masking how a single counter-intelligence branch could kill an operation without explaining why.
Thousands of operators were dropped into the Axis maw to set Europe ablaze, but a systematic erasure of their records has left a void where the truth of their betrayal should be.
Kept in archival summaries for decades, the training records of the OSS show how the US learned to dismantle European political organizations—and what the state still hides about the sources of that knowledge.
Men were dropped by parachute into the Gestapo's reach to lead guerrilla wars in France, Holland, and Belgium, leaving behind a paper trail managed by the OSS for decades.