SPIES OF THE PAST GATHER TO HONOR ONE OF THEIR OWN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: September 26, 1979
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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE)
26 September 1979
::pies of the t
gatner
_. ? honor one of their
own
By Joy Billin
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Washington Star~taft Writer
They are called spooks today,
somewhat disparagingly. But 30
years ago they were, quite simply,
heroes.
As William Colby said - last night
at a "Veterans of the O.SS" dinner at
the Washington. Hilton - "in the
days of the O.S.S. we relied only on
spies. Now we have technology and
spies combined. The really innova-
tive thing that the. O.S.S. under, Bill
Donovan did, was to create a collec-
tion of-scholars..evaluating. ntelli-
gence."
The dinner, eaten under, a giant
sepia photograph. of the founder and
first head of the. Office. of. Strategic
Services, the forerunner: of the CIA
was, quite literally, a gathering of
veterans. The occasion was the
honoring of Jacques Chavan Delmas
the president of the French National
Assembly and a World War. II resist-
g
nera
to be done
ance hero who infiltrated into in: "And if you get me killed, get..
France in 1944 to represent Gen. someone to say a prayer over my
Charles DeGaulle: - -=..-- grave. .. . " Bazata told the reporter.
The award, previously.:bestowed -; ,:,.; . Whatever the truth of the matter,
on Dwight Eisenhower, Earl Mount. ' it was not an evening where every=
batten, David Bruce and. Allen one was anxious to spill secrets.
Dulles, among-others, was for the ?- ..Anthony-Kloman,. who, set up,two
majority of the `450 guests a trip schools of psychological warfare. in
down memory lane.. England and who wore a row of for-
-And so they came, some limping , _ eign decorations on his dinner
slightly, elegantly. Some. using a ' Jacket, admitted that he'd "recruited
cane. Many white haired, courteous; _ and trained the first Allied agent-
--hiding well under stiff upper lips ..t. into'Berlin in-1944." But he refused
their old feat of courage. Or, per. to disclose the name.o'r:nationality.,
haps, allowing a little to slip out dis--~ . of the agent. "That sort of thing,
creetly not braggingly - so that, causes trouble with the Russians. Of
their period as well as their personal course there are still mysteries," the
? roles might. be. remembered.- white haired, blue-eyed, musta ,
"Current CIA director Stansfield:`. chioed Kloman said:.,-
rurner, who was invited
declined
,
.
But former director William Colby
was willing to comment on the latest
intelligence flap over the Soviet-'bri-
gade in Cuba. "It's an intelligence
triumph,". Colby declared. ,"There
are 3,000 men - who'd get lost in the
Miami traffic if they invadedd- us!
It's the nose of the camel. We should
be pleased we could find such a
small unit and be alerted in time to
do something."
Sitting near Colby, former O.S.S.
agent: Douglas Bazata spoke of his
still controversial 'claim that in 1944
he was assigned to kill Gen. George
Patton. "Apparently quite a number
Of top-level people-were jealous of-
Patton," Bazata said. "I know the guy
who killed him. But I was the one.'
who got paid for it - $10,000." O.S.S.
Director "Wild Bill" Donovan him-
self, Bazata addded, was the man
mous American
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