Small World, Big World War ; Clark County Residents Spent Time During the 1940s Working for the Oss, Forerunner to Today's Cia

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So Julia Child, Ho Chi Minh and Phil Ugiss walked into a bar ...

Actually, it was an Allied military office in Southeast Asia.

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Small World, Big World War ; Clark County Residents Spent Time During the 1940s Working for the Oss, Forerunner to Today's Cia

But that gathering, featuring a career soldier who spent his last 27 years in the Vancouver area, illustrated an interesting aspect of global conflict 60 years ago: It was a big world war, but it could be a small world.

Ugiss, who died in 2002, was an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. He volunteered for the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency that was the forerunner of the CIA.

Ugiss (pronou...

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