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Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. By Elizabeth P. McIntosh. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55750-598-5. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 282. $29.95.
Elizabeth McIntosh was a newspaperwoman when she joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in January 1943. Assigned to New Delhi and later to China, she worked in Morale Operations, manufacturing rumors and disseminating false information to the Japanese. Her postwar career in the U.S. government included fifteen years in the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) Directorate of Operations.
She thus brings extensive personal experience to her book. But it is much more than a nostalgic memoir. McIntosh has tracked down and interviewed or corresponded with over one hundred former OSS members, including most of the surviving people covered in Sisterhood of Spies. Their recollections, which lend much of the spice to her work, are supplemented by archival material on the OSS, privately held papers, and many published works. The result is an informative,...