#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)

In 2010, I was a historian for the best museum you've never seen. The CIA Museum. We were preparing to install a new exhibit on the Office of Strategic Services, OSS. America's first central intelligence agency. I was tasked with finding out everything I could about this experimental organization, which included researching the company roster.

hastily pulled together to fight the Axis. OSS was an odd creature. At once a collection of men and women from the upper crust of society on America's east coast And a magnet for astonishingly talented and creative people from all walks of life. From Wall Street lawyers to Hollywood filmmakers,

Even the future chef Julia Child. In OSS, they could almost literally design their own adventures. My head swimming in research, I made an offhand connection one day that would lead to uncharted waters. I remember reading in the past that Ernest Hemingway And Colonel David Bruce of the OSS had liberated the bar of the Ritz in Paris from the Germans in August nineteen forty four.

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