The untold story of the academics who beca me OSS spies\, invented modern spy craft\, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII\, the US found itself in desperate need of an in telligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS)\, a precursor to today's CIA\, was quickly formed-and\, in an effort to fill its ranks wit h experts\, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly\, literature professors\, librarians\, and historians were training to perform underco ver operations and investigative work-and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institu tions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger\, Elyse Graham draws on perso nal histories\, diaries\, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss\, a literature professor who hunted down Ger man spies and turned them into double agents\; Sherman Kent\, a smart-mout hed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of E urope and Africa\; and Adele Kibre\, an archivist who was sent to Stockhol m to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable character s would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and tra nsform American higher education when they returned after the war. \;< /p>\n
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