
13 Rue Madeleine
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- 1946
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[Man Narrating]
"What is past is prologue."
Yes, here at the National Archives
in Washington D. C...
past is prologue...
for this is the final resting place
of the histories and records...
of tens of thousands
of illustrious Americans.
World War II has come
to a victorious conclusion...
and now new names and new records
are being added to the list...
for the nation and the world are
for the first time learning...
of silent and significant deeds
performed in foreign lands...
by a legion of anonymous men and women...
the Army of Secret Intelligence.
When Washington, recovering from
the staggering blow of Pearl Harbor...
realized how effective had been
the long-established...
espionage machines
of Germany and Japan...
from the White House came orders
that the United States, too...
must have eyes and ears
within enemy countries.
Immediately, the nation commenced...
for the first time in its history...
to recruit a Secret
Intelligence Corps.
As the man best capable of organizing
the secret activities...
of the new United States
Intelligence Corps...
the president chose a Saint Louis
attorney, Charles Stevenson Gibson...
whose background in international
affairs had been gained...
from ten years'special service
in the American Embassy in Berlin.
As director of
Secret Intelligence...
Gibson reported only to the president
Among the top-level executives
of United States Secret Intelligence...
and soldier of fortune...
Robert Emmet Sharkey
of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Master of five languages and one
of America's foremost athletes...
Bob Sharkey was twice captured
by the Germans in World War I...
and both times escaped
achievement behind enemy lines.
To Washington, in the weeks and months
had come 76 carefully selected
groups of candidates...
for training and assignment
to secret operations overseas.
At the Union Station
one morning in 1944...
among thejostling thousands,
came the 77th group of candidates...
each unknown to the other.
The Washington headquarters of Secret
Intelligence was under tight security...
its address and telephone unlisted
in any governmental directory.
Few even knew of its existence.
is typical of the activities...
of any of the 76 groups
which preceded it.
Each candidate's qualifications
and background...
had been checked and rechecked
before he was called to Washington.
Every member of O77 had volunteered
without reservation...
for hazardous duty
behind enemy lines.
were men like Pappy Simpson...
a British intelligence officer
a professor of English literature...
at Dartmouth College
at Hanover, New Hampshire.
Suzanne de Beaumont,
a French citizen...
had found herself stranded in the
United States when France fell in 1940.
Ofher husband, a captain
of artillery in the French army,
nothing had been heard.
Jeff Lassiter, son of a former
American consul at Bern, Switzerland...
was educated at Geneva
and Oxford.
Lassiter was recruited from the
Officers Training School at U.C.L. A...
partly because ofhis
superior knowledge of French.
Bill O'Connell,
a Rutgers graduate...
Bill O'Connell,
a Rutgers graduate...
had been employed in the Foreign
Department of the Chase National Bank.
He spent two years in the bank's
European branches...
then Hitler went on the march...
and O'Connell returned
to New York.
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