Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 5, 1943. OSS Coup Plots

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Tuesday, October 5, 1943. OSS Coup Plots

For the first time since a failed attempt in 1943, U.S. aircraft bomb Wake Island. Surface vessels also shelled the island.

In an example of the rogue nature of the OSS, Theodore Morde, of the Reader's Digest, at the request of OSS head William J. Donovan, met with the German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen to encourage the latter to attempt a coup against Hitler. Roosevelt was not informed of the effort.

The Washington Homestead Grays won the 1943 Negro World Series, beating the Birmingham Black Barons.

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