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Penrose to Loud, 28 July 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA; see also ECOP, 212.
- Penrose to Loud, 28 July 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA. Also in Folder 4, Box 5, Series 8 (OSS), PP.
- Preliminary report of trip of S.B.L. Penrose Jr., Aug-Sep 1943, 21
September 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3, NARA.
- Crawford to Loud, 19 August 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box
3, NARA.
- Generally, the main sources of security violations were passenger lists, travel
orders, luggage labels (baggage tags), and freight-shipment papers (bills of
lading). History of the Near East Section, OSS Cairo from 15 May 1943
to 15 September 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 201, Box 261, NARA.
- Crawford to Loud, 19 August 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box
3, NARA.
- Original italics. Crawford to Loud, 30 September 1943, Record Group
226, Entry 215, Box 3, NARA.
- Report G-2486 dated 4 April 1944, mentioned in History of the Near East
Section, OSS Cairo from 15 May 1943 to 15 September 1944, Record
Group 226, Entry 210, Box 261, NARA; and Kermit Roosevelt, The
Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) (New
York: Walker, 1976), 50.
- Archie Roosevelt, For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 139–40. During his time as assistant mili-
tary attaché in Iraq, Roosevelt depended heavily on British and Indian
PAIFORCE officers for help and friendship, including several CICI offi-
cers (Hanbury Dawson-Shepherd, Christopher Hohler, Robert Ellis,
Michael Berkeley, and James Shotter). Ibid., 129 passim. For more about
Roosevelt, see Wilford, Great Game, 43–6.
- Crawford to Loud, 10 December 1943, Record Group 226, Entry 215,
Box 3, NARA.
- Crawford to Loud, 27 January 1944, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box
3, NARA.
- Gordon Loud was head of OSS-SI Near East desk in Washington, a Boston
architect who was active before the war as an archaeologist in Iraq, where
he worked on various excavations with Seton Lloyd, later of SOE. See
Seton Lloyd, The Interval: A Life in Near Eastern Archaeology (Faringdon:
Lloyd Collon, 1986), 28, 76.
- Leary to Loud, 8 January 1945, Record Group 226, Entry 215, Box 3,
NARA.
- Harold Lamb was a popular author of pulp fiction whose cover in Tehran
was as a journalist for Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies’ Home Journal.
See Adrian O’Sullivan, Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran): The
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