The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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There is as well a glass case devoted to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which preceded the CIA as America’s first national intelligence agency. On a shelf above a pistol and silencer that once belonged to the OSS director “Wild” Bill Donovan are two worn cardboard baseball cards. Beside them is a placard that says, MORRIS (MOE) BERG BASEBALL CARDS. Following his 15-year career with five different major league teams, the Princeton-educated Berg served as a highly successful Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative during World War II. Among his many missions on behalf of OSS, the ...more
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When Linda McCarthy, the CIA museum curator, talks about Moe Berg, her face flushes sanguine and her conversation comes in breathless, staccato surges. Moe Berg is her passion. “People think I’m making him up,” she says. “I idolize Moe. He did it for the right reasons. He joined OSS with a purpose in mind. He knew he’d be useful to this country. He knew what the Germans were doing with the atomic bomb. That’s what intelligence is all about. You have to know what the other side’s doing. “As a ballplayer he was a gentleman,” continues McCarthy, who drives a utility vehicle—“for a utility ...more