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Patricia Warner: OSS Counter Intelligence

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Patricia Warner was member of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) an American spy agency founded during World War II which was the predecessor to the CIA. Mrs. Warner began as a filing clerk in Washington, DC and then was moved to London where she worked in the OSS Counter Intelligence Office run by Norman Holmes Pearson who helped break the famous Enigma encoding machine. This intelligence break-through by a small band of codebreakers was credited with hastening the end of World War II. In these videos, Mrs. Warner tells her story of how a bereaved war widow ends up in the nexus of one of the great intelligence triumphs of World War 2.