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On August 2, 1943, Berg accepted a position with the Office of Strategic Services Special Operations Branch (SO) for a salary of $3,800 ($66,900 today) a year. He was a paramilitary operations officer in the part of the OSS that developed as the present-day CIA Special Activities Division.
Jan 5, 2021 · After he retired from baseball in 1942 with a career batting average of .243, six home runs, and 206 RBI, Berg accepted a job with Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs, an agency set up to counter Axis propaganda in Latin America.
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Aug 31, 2023 · Berg started playing baseball at a local Episcopal church at age 8, adopting the pseudonym Runt Wolfe to mask his Jewish heritage at a time of widespread antisemitism. He was a star on both his...
Jun 10, 2009 · From 1926 until 1930, Berg played with the Chicago White Sox where he averaged only .250 with no home runs. In 1939, with the Boston Red Sox, Berg was asked by Ted Williams what made Lou Gehrig...
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Oct 2, 2023 · All that imagery of destruction, retribution, and rebirth could obscure circumstances that were often deeply, grubbily—and fascinatingly—political, as Scott W. Berg shows in his illuminating new...
Sep 27, 2023 · In The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul, Scott W. Berg offers new conclusions about the 1871 fire and its aftermath.
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Jan 4, 2012 · In August 1943, Moe Berg was recruited into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), later to become the CIA, by General William (Wild Bill) Donovan, former commander of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth Regiment in World War I. Berg had just finished his tour of South American countries to secure cooperation between them and the United States in the war ...
