Tag: OSS
Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. Seventy-years ago, on November 9, 1942, forty-nine year old Allen W. Dulles arrived in Bern, Switzerland to head up the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operations in Switzerland. Dulles was lucky to be in Switzerland. His train passed from Vichy France into Switzerland only minutes before the Germans [...]
Posted by Guest Blogger on November 9, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records.
Tags: Abwehr, Allen W. Dulles, Bern, CIA, espionage, Greg Bradsher, Hans Bernd Gisevius, intelligence, OSS, RG 84, Switzerland, Vladimir Lenin, World War II
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Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. Nancy Yeide, head of the Department of Curatorial Records at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., in December 1997, began doing provenance research on the NGA’s holdings to ascertain whether any of the works of art had provenance problems. In the wake of the revelations [...]
Posted by Guest Blogger on September 25, 2012, under Archives II, Outside NARA, Reference, Researchers.
Tags: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Greg Bradsher, Henri Matisse, Hermann Goering, Holocaust-Era assets, Nancy Yeide, National Gallery of Art, OSS, Owen J. Roberts, Paul Rosenberg, provenance, Roberts Commission
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