Random Omar


One of the things that happens when you're working on a big-topic non-fiction book like a biography is that you end up with all sorts or random facts that just don't fit anywhere.

But they feel like they ought to.

Kinda.

Such as: on D Day-plus three or four, Bradley's headquarters was overrun by OSS members presumably looking for a helping hand. It became so chaotic that he eventually banned all OSS operations except for those run by one officer whom he had dealt with before.

Which means that problems between the army and the CIA basically date back to the CIA's inception. And that Bradley didn't find the OSS people directly useful. (There are some references to human spies in A Soldier's Story, but it's generally interpreted as a cover for Ultra, still top secret when the book was published.)

Can't find a good place for it in the bio, though.