Wow! That’s “Wild” Bill Donovan, founder of the OSS (now the CIA)?
Every now and then, like last year when one edition you posted included a picture of Ambassador Kennedy’s son, something just really grabs you by the historical throat.
As always, thanks for the pings.
FRegards,
LH
This is not the first mission that “Wild Bill” Donovan did for FDR. Aside from the 5th Column mission mentioned in the article, in December of 1935 Donovan was privately sent to visit Benito Mussolini in the ignorant hope of swaying him away from Hitler. He was given a tour of the Italian’s front in Abyssinia with his guide being none other than Marshal Pietro Badoglio who has also made the paper today.
Another man accompanying him on this flight is William Stephenson who currently is heading up the BSC (British Security Coordination) and is the same man who’s career is recounted (though with great exaggeration) in the book “The Man Called Intrepid”. I’m not sure though if this is the Mr. O’Connell mentioned in the article