{"id":9767,"date":"2015-11-27T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:02:23","slug":"espionage-files-oss-living-legend-hugh-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/27\/espionage-files-oss-living-legend-hugh-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: OSS Living Legend Hugh Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><em><strong>I am currently writing a series of short stories about the OSS during WW2. Here are some of my inspirations. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9768\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/hm.jpg\" alt=\"HM\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"dateline\">WASHINGTON<\/span> \u2014 Hugh Montgomery never wrote a memoir. That just wasn&#8217;t done among his generation of spies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_459a9cb3d27a993668dc6ab9dadb952e\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\">\u00a0But his exploits as a World War II combat veteran, CIA cold warrior and Washington power player could have filled a dozen books and made him a revered figure among the insiders who know his story.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_4340322ea6c88c079cd09be330f571eb\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\">\u00a0Montgomery jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne. He went behind enemy lines for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA&#8217;s daring and nimble forerunner, where he was among the first Americans to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp. After returning to Harvard to earn his PhD and teach, he joined the newly formed CIA, where he led spying operations against the Soviets in Rome, Paris, Vienna, Athens and Moscow.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_432f76b385507ebaac3c5d4182a8d41b\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text no-ant\">\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;d call him one of the founding fathers of the CIA,&#8221; said Leon Panetta, who consulted Montgomery occasionally when he was director of the spy agency.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text no-ant\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_8503145c16edf34cc1d87e3d39fbe400\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\">Panetta spoke in a video tribute played earlier this month at a black-tie dinner of the OSS Society, which is raising money to build a museum. Montgomery was the main event, standing to accept the William D. Donovan award, named after the OSS founder.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_dont_show ant_helper ant_no_reactions no-ant\">Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/he-jumped-into-normandy-ran-spies-in-moscow-retired-at-90\/15134844\/\"> WRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently writing a series of short stories about the OSS during WW2. Here are some of my inspirations. -SF WASHINGTON \u2014 Hugh Montgomery never wrote a memoir. That just wasn&#8217;t done among his generation of spies. \u00a0But his exploits as a World War II combat veteran, CIA cold warrior and Washington power player&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3140,2908,1725,1286,1899],"tags":[3139,2017,3141,3142,3143,3144,2332,3137],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}