MEMORIES OF SECRET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100122-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: May 20, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHL;GTON POST
20 MAY 1977
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NE YOIIK - "lt-s a time-for old
pals to see one another and dredge up
soma old stories, to embellish them a
little, and to say nine grand we were
in the old clays. ..it's not formal,
-though we are wearing tuxedos. It's
family:'_.: -
Michael Burke paused. An 'elderly
man with a powerful chest but tin-
cooperative legs limped up to him, ex-
changed pleasantries. and moved off
into the nearby crowd of partygoers.
"Quite a fellow, that one,' . ? Burke said.
"But then, the O.S.S. was filled with.
his type."
it was just thai? feeling that wafted
through the evening Wednesday at
the annual reunion dinner of this na-
tion's cloak-and-d;gget? pioneers, the'
men and women of World War It's Of-
fice of Strategic Services.
These were the hours- when 2,00 of
the people-many of whom'-had once
concealed their- identities-could once
again share their tales of exploits
fighting the Axis with weapons of
espionage, sabotage and spy tactics.
here and there, of course, familiar
faces popped out of the crowd at the
Hotel Pierre. Michael Burke, best
known to area sports fans as the for-
met- president of the New York Yan-
kees and as current president of Mad-
ison Square Garden, was easily recog-
nizable. He had been O.S.S., secreted
into Italy in l.c,43 and into France a
year later to work with the Resist-
ance.
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William E. Colby, former director of
the Central Intelligence Agency--a di-
rect descendant of the O.S.S.-was
sought out with regularity by former
colleagues and by those who had fol-
lowed his trials and tribulations as di
rector of the CIA.
He had been O.S.S., parachuting
with a- squad into Norway to wreak
havoc on German supply trains.
James J. Angleton, tall and stooped,.
was also there. He, too, had been
O.S.S., preceding his counterintellig-
ence activities with the CIA with simi-
lar work in Italy in the early '40s.
There were other familiar faces, in
eludin, those of former Ambassado
to France i,obert Murphy, the eve
ning's guest of honor and recipient o
an a',vard for service "in the interest
of the united States and the cause o
freedom named in honor of th+
O.S.S.'s late founder and ,uidin
light, Lt. Gen. William J1 "i'; rid Bill
Donovan. Murphy was not O.S.S.
And John Weitz. the designer, th
was, and Charles Collingwooc!, tiff
CBS correspondent, and Clare Booth
Luce, who weren't, and other, wh-
seemed familiar or not,. dependin
upon who you were and what circlE
you moved in.
And Bill Juchnie'vicz was also pre,
ent. He didn't sit on the dais with the ~Thonipson advei?tisidg agency where
more famous people, instead tucking . he retired as executive vice president
his compact body behind his assigned ar. ge 1i2,fiye years a' . spent a large
table far in the rear of the Grand - ct!unk=o? tie war,in Cairo. -
Ballroom. had'.eery busy'ti:ne;: there- b .
Thirty-seven years ago, Juchriiewicz, Cause we were responsible for a lot of.
whose native Poland had been over- agents." he .'said.-. "Sorie men. like
run by the Nazis, joined forces with Gen. Donovan were afraid of nothing
L S. military authorities and within a 0;,,. dad ih'19-l when.I was with him.
felt' short months was supplying Intel- ? in Southeast Asia, .sorneone came into:
li_ ence data to.the O.S.S. from scores our office en 3 sug,ested the general
of locations throughout Eastern Ett? fi to. an island :where 30 or so O.S.S.
rope. onc?ratives were ,w-orking. The thin;
"I research military and factory was. the ?iapanese.. heid-half -of the is-'
movement. and ??llera the suuvlies are land. .
sent," lie said with a thick accent. ` f 'Sure, v:e:d ?I&P.e to i_oo wouldn't
.,to all the time traveling, Sometimes e.:Ed?'-the general said.=Ile was de-
bus, sometimes walking, sometimes I !ii htecFtn go.: Frankly, I wasn't quite
change name. One time, 'I dress like - ?thdt' tnrilied... But:'..we matte it."
woman with baby carriage filled with . f:ven more: low key .was Kennett
grenades. Nazi soldiers thin;; I have IIinks_:73, whose dry sense of humor'
baby, but they very wrong." pre7ented those .around him.%Vednes-
Today, Juchniewicz. (35, is retired day evening from; interpreting his re-:
luctanee to -reminisce as an effort to
and lives in Daytona Beach. 1'!6:_tirlth
his memories (following the war her :hold va!aable information. from en-'
worked as a translator for tite '\a- emv hands.
tional Catholic `Welfare Board and One of the less recdenizables. }links t
then for IBM) and with his pension serited as O.S.S. chie? of planning, a
and disability checks. key post he earned after years of un.-
"You see this?" he asked.-'pulling related `work during "the` 19206. as ..a
aside the left part of his white dinner .representative in Central'Europe for;
jac!iet and pointing to his chest where t:re sime?J- 1ti alter Tho'. p .so '. agency
a large. portion of his shirt could be the retired from the firm?as a director-.::
seen pulsating with frightenin force. in 1%-1):
"Che Gestapo capture me' in 19.3. heat r ' Those were exciting, very exciting ;
me, torture tine, kick me with boots clays he allowed after prodding from=
and break my ribs. My heart. it-be- some friends-. .."But. everyday of, my
comes enlarged and. i spend - rest or life is exciting to me. Actually I? can't::
:vas in' Stala,g 3-B near Leipzi? and thin' of anything to recount that was
then in P.uchemvaid coucentiatioa }cry e:cceptional,?: ?,
camps. But I was- proud.to be O.S.S. t
Very proud."
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