Box 1

Scope and Contents Regular bi-monthly reports on Italian Section SI activities by Scamporino, 1944-1945, as follows (note that some portions are missing):-16-31 January 1945-1-15 February 1945-16-28 February 1945-1-15 March 1945-16-31 March 1945-1-15 April 1945-1-15 December 1944-15-31 December 1944-1-31 July 1944 (A full month)-1-15 August 1944-16-31 August 1944-16-30...

Scope and Contents Reports and correspondence concerning Italian SI operations in Northern Italy that also involved France and Switzerland, November 1944. Focus is on a Capt. Bourgoin who seems to have been a French double agent, and a contact known as Dr. Como heading a chain of several agents, who made some major mistakes and blew his cover, stranding him in Switzerland. (In a document in folder “Personnel” dated January 8, 1945, “Como” is referred to as “advisor to Captain Bourgoin”, and it is implied that...

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Reports and correspondence 1944-1945, mostly focusing on Scamporino’s management of various contacts in Italy. Some content in Italian.

Scope and Contents Aside from a small photograph of 3 men sitting and talking in a room (one in uniform and two not) and an initial report of some kind in Italian dated June 23/24 1944, this folder contains a compilation of the “Diary of General Giuseppe Castellano”, consisting of “Part I - Beginning of Events”, “Part II - Meetings and Discussions”, and “Part III - Conclusions”. The diary is hundreds of pages and was compiled presumably by OSS in a manner incorporating both diary transcriptions and more...

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Reports and correspondence concerning Italian S.I. operations Fall 1944-Winter 1945. Company “D” mentioned several times and several reports concern operations of codenamed teams and “circuits”, especially “Papaya”, though there is also a political report based around an interview with Pietro Nenni, secretary of the Socialist Party at the time. First item is a report of the death of an Italian agent when his secret radio station was compromised.

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Correspondence: Handwritten, effectively 2 pages, Italian, [?] 10, 1944. To Scamporino from someone with first initial “S” and last name beginning with “D” and seemingly ending in “-iani”. Context as originally found suggests it was about concentration camps in Italy. Small dense writing in cursive. Held with the envelope it came in.

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3 substantial stapled stacks of telegram slips or similar, 1943. As is typical, contents of most are brief and somewhat unclear.

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Reports and correspondence, 1944, concerning various matters including partisan operations and secret codenamed team operations. Much of the material is addressed to OSS officer Col. E.J.F. Glavin, whose name appears throughout the collection elsewhere as well. Several missions described involved a submarine called “Platino”.

Scope and Contents Reports and correspondence, 1944-1945, concerning the relationship between the OSS and the Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy, a major partisan group abbreviated in short form as either CNL or CLN and in long form as either CNLAI or CLNAI. Most content in English, some in Italian. Much of the correspondence is between Scamporino and an Italian codenamed “Mondo”. Also of note is one of the latest objects in the entire collection, a 1/5/1958 obituary in New York Times for...

Scope and Contents A large color map of Northern Italy bearing the name/title of “Organizzazione Resistenza Italiana: Missione O.S.S. ‘Gobi’”. In excellent condition except for some tearing along fold lines, fully unfolding not recommended. Documents in folder “Radio Stations - Northern Italy - Fall 1944” suggest that “Gobi” was somehow associated with S.I. radio station “Orange” in November 1944, possibly as its supply team/mission. “Orange” was described as being in the Val Pellice having “complete...