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TOP SECRET: <\/span>OSS\/CIA Missions and Mishaps<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

As seen through the eyes of Special Agent Hal Schroeder<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The immediate post-war years, 1945-1950, were an espionage clusterfuck for the USA. And Hal Schroeder got to experience it all firsthand.<\/p>\n

President Truman disbanded the OSS right after WWII because Americans didn\u2019t approve of spying. And J. Edgar Hoover wanted the FBI to run the show.\u00a0(continued below)<\/p>\n

\"trilogy-kirkus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Post-war Berlin was supposedly ruled by the victorious Allies, but was actually run by thugs on all sides. It wasn\u2019t till late \u201947 that Harry Truman figured out the Yanks were locked in a Cold War with their former ally, and established the CIA.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the young Agency relied heavily on their more experienced British espionage cohorts, five of whom had converted to Communism during their college education at Cambridge.<\/p>\n

As Hal Schroeder lamented about that time: \u201cIf this were prizefight, they would have stopped it two rounds ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stephen Smoke<\/div>
Editor-in-Chief, Mystery Magazine<\/a><\/div>
Hal Schroeder is destined to join the ranks of classic characters in American fiction.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>