and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS). "Compared to the campaigns in the Pacific, the Southeast Asian campaigns of World War II have received limited attention in military history (the ...

or OSS — the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency — conducted during World War II. Many scholars, including Yale faculty, were then recruited as spies because of their academic backgrounds.

A Sebastopol writer speculates on what the famous TV chef might have been doing as an agent with the OSS during World War II in a new novel. Before she became the chirpy and occasionally quirky TV ...