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| Mr. Joseph E. Persico
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Joe:
| Here's a copy of my final report on the German operations.
| This leaves me with only one copy, so I would appreciate getting it
back or, if you are xeroxing, it would be appreciated if you would
send this back with another one for me.
Yours 2,
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Mr. Joseph Persico
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Dear Joe:
Thanks for your note. You should talk to
Tommy the Cork if only for the fun of it.
I enjoyed the chance to reminisce at our
was particularly pleased that you have com-
quickly a manuscript which pleases you.
lunch and
pleted so
It occurred to me that yours will be the first
and probably the only detailed study of our German opera-
tion. I don't think I've ever spelled out for you how I
got into it, pulled it together and got it launched.
This chapter from the draft of the book I'm
working on may give you some perspectives you don't have.
The book I am working on so slowly will attempt
the full story of all facets of clandestine support of
Eisenhower's march to the Elbe as you will see from the
enclosed outline of the chapters in my present draft.
treatment of the German phase, as you will see from the
draft, will be much more general than your work.
My
Your title "Piercing the Reich" is much better
than my chapter title "Penetration of Germany" which
comes from Donovan's inscription on a picture he gave
me at the end of the war which reads "To Bill Casey with
thanks for his comprehensive and effective job of German
penetration in aid of the advance of American forces",
WILLIAM J. C4GFY
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I am more proud of putting that show together than
I am of anything else I have ever done. This gives me an
interest in helping to make your story as good and complete
as possible so you are welcome to use anything in this
draft.
I also have a document which I think is particularly
illuminating on the structure, focus and totality of the
Operation. It might be suitable for inclusion in the
appendix that you mentioned. As soon as I can lay my hands
on it, I will send it along.
With best regards,
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Enclosure
OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES
WASHINGTON 258, D. C.
5 September 1945
Near Bills
I have your letter of resignation, dated
31 Auguste. It doesn't shock me, because we had already
talked it out together; but it had an jmpact just the
Same
You are doing the sensible thing, I am sure,
in all the circumstances. But as I said to you the
other day, I shall miss you greatly, and so will a
whole lot more people. You tock one of the toughest
assignments in the organization at a very critical
moment. You carried it out with brains and zeal, and
prodigious work, and leadership. You drove your tean,
and you led them. You won their admiration, and their
affection aS well. The account of what was accomplished
under your direction is a matter of record; it is the
best report which has come across my desk in three y6<crSe
It tells the story of a very 5pe cific blow delivered
at the enemy which aided in bringing about his defeat.
I look at some military decorations on some
people and I have my dcubtse I noticed yours the other
day, and I was proud to have worked with youe
Faithfully yours,
Whi tney/ "] Aeterd? )
William J. Casey, Esqe,
Research Institute cf America, Ince,
292 Madison Aveo,
New York Citye
27 September 1945
Mr. William J. Casey,
Research Institute of America, Inc.,
292 Madison Ave.,
New York, New York.
Dear Bill,
I have not previously replied to your
letter of resignation, because I have continued
to think of you ag one of us.
It has been the policy of the CSS never
to hesitate to assign major responsibility to young
men who have what it takes. This policy has teen,
in my opinion, one of our primary sources of strength.
It has been vindicated by the outstanding performances
of many, but by none more than your own. You took
up one of the heaviest loads which any of us had to
carry at a time when the going was roughest, and you
delivered brilliantly, forcefully and in good time.
With the war over and the job done, we all
know that you have more than fully earned your right
to go your way. But we will continue to count on you
for assistance in the pinches, as one toward whom we
feel continuing ‘pride and affection.
William J¢ Donoven,
dajor-General
WILLIAM P. MOGERS
JOHN A.WELLS
CAESAR L. PITASSY
EUGENE L. BONDY, UR
FREDERICK w. P. LORENZEN
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ROBERT E. FRISCH
WILLIAM F. KOEGEL
WILLIAM R. GLENDON
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FREDERICK P GLICK
FIORAVANTE G. PERROTTA
THOMAS H. Mc BRYDE
JOHN B. LOUGHRAN
LEO P. LARKIN, UR.
STANLEY GODOFSKY
HERBERT C. EARNSHAW
ROGER A. CLARK
H. CHESTER GRANT
ROBERT D. LARSEN
DAVID W. BERNSTEIN
CHARLES A. SIMMONS
JOSEPH DIAMOND
ANTHONY F. ESSAYE
RICHARD N. WINFIELD
JOHN J. SHEEHY
PETER R_ FISHER
ROBERT A. LINDGREN
GUY C. QUINLAN
JOSEPH H. SPAIN
WARD B. STEVENSON, JR
ALAN M. BERMAN
FREDERICK G. TATE
WILLIAM S. GREENAWALT
JOHN M. LIFTIN
HOWARD T. SPROW
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GEORGE O. DESHENSKY
Cc. GRANT ANDERSON
PETER J. WALLISON
JAMES B.WEIDONER
RONALD E. BRACKETT
NORMAN WISE
JAMES J. MALONEY
JOHN H. CARLEY
MELVIN L.SCHWEITZER
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Dear Joe:
Here is the item I thought would make a
This is the final edition
Piece for your appendix.
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of a directive I prepared to spell out needs,
capabilities and priorities for all the spread out
OSS elements in the European theatre.
I also found this picture of me taken in
Paris before I changed my uniform for a gray suit in
order to take command of this operation.
are letters that Donovan and Shepardson sent me after
I left.
Yours,
ee,
William J. Casey
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Dear Bill,
I am sorry that my schedule did not permit me to take
on editing your book at this time. As I explained when we talked
on the phone, I swung immediately from the OSS projeet into another
book.
I have read the chapter on your book dealing with
the penetratéon of Germany and it moves along very well. I am
afraid, for all my research, there is no substitute for having
been the man who was there, in the thick of it.
I picked up some small edits which I think you would
want to know about:
‘Page 5: Its Lazare Teper.
‘Page 6° Its Sir Gerald Templer
‘Page 7: Its Turnbull
‘Page 13° Its C rl Muecke, and he is a federal
Judge in PHoenix.
Good luck to you on the book. Thanks for the complement
in asking my collaboration and again my deepest gratitude for
you invaluable help.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM P_ ROGERS
JOHN A WELLS
CAESAR L PITASSY
EUGENE L. BONDY, UR
FREDERICK W P LORENZEN
JAMES V. RYAN
H ALLEN LOCHNER
ROBERT E. FRISCH
WILLIAM F. KOFGEL
WILLIAM R. GLENDON
EUGENE T. ROSSIDES
FREDERICK P GLICK
FIORAVANTE G. PERROTTA
THOMAS H. MCBRYDE
JOHN B. LOUGHRAN
LEO P. LARKIN, UR.
STANLEY GODOFSKY
HERBERT C. EARNSHAW
ROGER A. CLARK
H. CHESTER GRANT
ROBERT D. LARSEN
DAVID W. BERNSTEIN
CHARLES A. SIMMONS
JOSEPH DIAMOND
ANTHONY F. ESSAYE
RICHARD N. WINFIELD
JOHN J. SHEEHY
PETER R. FISHER
ROBERT A LINDGREN
GUY C. QUINLAN
JOSEPH H. SPAIN
WARD B STEVENSON, JR
ALAN M. BERMAN
FREDERICK G TATE
WILLIAM S. GREENAWALT
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Dear Joe:
I find myself without a complete set of
that German Report of mine and I promised a set to
Prof. Hensley who is doing an official history on
World War II intelligence. What I am missing is
the first 11 pages of the cover report which bears
my Signature at the end on page 18. If you still have
the copy I gave you intact, xerox the first 11 pages
and send them to me. It would help. If you do not
have xerox facilities, my office will be glad to
handle that. Send them here and I will return them.
I hope you are doing well on your new
project.
Yours,
io‘ ai
Wy
od Cory
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ROBERT £. FRISCH
WILLIAM F. KOEGEL
WILLIAM BR. GLENDON
EUGENE T. @osSsIDES
FREDERICK P. GLICK
FIORAVANTE G. PERROTTA
THOMAS H. McBRYDE
JOHN B. LOUGHRAN
LEO P. LARKIN, UR.
STANLEY GODOFSKY
HERBERT C. EARNSHAW
ROGER A. CLARK
H. CHESTER GRANT
ROBERT DO. LARSEN
DAVID W. BERNSTEIN
CHARLES A. SIMMONS
JOSEPH DIAMOND
ANTHONY F. ESSaAYE
RICHARD N. WINFIELD
JOHN J. SHEEHY
PETER R. FISHER
ROBERT A. LINDGREN
GUY C. QUINLAN
JOSEPH H. SPAIN
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ALAN M. BERMAN
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Dear Joe:
Thanks very much for having Viking send me
a copy of the proofs of your book. I congratulate you on
a fine job in capturing the flavor and weaving it into
a very interesting and well balanced narrative. I was
particularly appreciative of the opportunity to see the
list of documents you were able to ply out of the CIA.
I shall probably look for those agent files to see what
they tick off in my memory. You certainly have done
a marvelous job of digging up people who I had forgotten
about and who came back quite clearly when you mentioned
them -- Fred Gercke, for example. Harwood is a name that
I recognize but don't associate with any face or person.
There is one thing in your account that jumped
out at me as being not entirely accurate. I had not "made
a fortune before the war writing" books. I did make what
perhaps some people would call a fortune writing those
books during the fifties and sixties. I had put together
a three-volume work on income taxes and a three or four-volume
work on war controls for a publishing house still known as
the Research Institute of America, and it was important
enough for them to continue to send my wife my pre-war salary
of $12,000 a year which wasn't bad in those days while I
lived in London on the largess of the United States Navy.
That's just a factual thing which isn't of any great
importance. Don't let this trouble you or run up your
author's alteration charges unless you want to. It doesn't
concern me.
Mr. Joseph Persico 2 October 20, 1978
Also, by the way, I didn't establish the secretariat
in Washington. That had already been set up by Ole Doering
when I was recruited to establish a similar facility for
Bruce in London. I worked in the Washington secretariat for
a few months to learn enough to establish a counterpart in
London. TI don't mind earning a fortune before the war, and
I don't mind being credited with imposing a semblance of
order in Washington, but I don't want to take credit for what
Ole Doering did.
After reading your book I am looking forward to
another opportunity to reminisce with you over a good meal.
I'll be glad to buy. If you have time for one when you are
in New York, give me a call. Otherwise I'll call you when
I'm in Washington.
Witliam J. Casey
