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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Description: In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. After a disconcerting amount of time, William âWild Billâ Donovan, the head of the OSS, walked in the door. âYou know your Sherlock Holmes, of course,â Donovan said as an introduction. âProfessor Moriarty is the man I want for my staffâŚI think youâre it.âFollowing this life-changing encounter, Lovell became the head of a se...