SET-IN AT THE OSS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300380016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
Approved For Release 200M/0 1N- 5-00149R
MAY 15 1966
'' Set-In at the 0.1q.14 F 1!1 ii
of the OSS during World War IT.
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A statuesque blonrls'.kept notice g . fort.'-'?.;'i.
young man with a lost soul expression on his,.`;
64" face sitting outside her office door' avow' time
Days went by. Every morning he showed up ; e;
1:.i o to keep his silent vigil. People trained to mind` 4
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Everyone but the blonde. `Finally, , she
euired:
-"Are you waiting. for someone?"
. he aorucv. ., ,
"Do you intend to sit out the war here?" `~ ;
r~h
a se asked. }
"Probably'," he said.
sonian's first artist in residence.
Steinberg, ? a ' Navy explosives expert' who"
had been recruited for the OSS by Mat. Gen
jh;..Y ' become aware of the snafu. - !- ,
They became close friends and she an ad-.' !;j
wirer of his artistic talents, which were utilized ;~0;
i by the ncc for clandest . -_---- - . ,, . .
Convinced of Steinberg's genius before tho'.
;.< ematicaly retrieves his propaganda sketches,? . ,f
-:' from wastebaskets all the time thkd
ey wore
.+d, she had LLCM photo!
?'stated for the National Archives, but kept the
originals in a bound volume.
Now she has offered the drawings to the .; r' ~'`
Smithsonian for an intended exhibition of ? Stein?` .-,
Z^, ; berg's worknext year ' The gesture se 't t F ~,
{.ems?o her partictllar'ly appropriate slnAA
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