‘Kind of you to include mention of “The Forgotten 500” which I just ordered via my library.
Julia Child and her husband were in the OSS in southern China. They were lefties, but I don’t believe they were ever disloyal.
‘Sort of what Leslie Groves said to aids who were even then concerned about communists within academia: “Where do you expect me to find scientists if not in the universities?”
It's a tremendous adventure story in its own right, but if you're like me, it will really open your eyes to how much communist infiltrators in the western allied intelligence and diplomatic communities did to help shape the post-war spoils of eastern Europe to the benefit of the Soviets. I just thought it worth mentioning on this thread because some of the info in that book makes the plot to remove Patton seem much more plausible.