Second World War in the European Theatre of Operations) was formulated, FDR FORBID any information on the plan to be divulged to the State Department. He said, “The place is like a sieve.” Our troops went ashore t Casablanca, and Algiers without any knowledge by the State Department that the troops had even left America.
Knowledge of OPERATION TORCH, our entry into the second world war ETO, was withheld from the State Department.”The place is like a sieve,” FDR said.