The postwar critique of MIS operations will say that experience proved that these men “had to have imagination coupled with analytical, judicial, and unbiased minds. Intellectual ability was more prerequisite than any experience, military or otherwise.”4 This most likely is the reason that none of these special people stayed on in the military after the war. According to the history of 3-US, on the whole Colonel Taylor spends “most of his time in problems outside the scope of the section. The person in charge was his deputy.” Four officers service Washington, two on military matters, two on
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