#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)

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2021-07-28

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What I learned from reading Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds.

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  • In 2010, I was a historian for the best museum you've never seen, the CIA museum.

  • We were preparing to install a new exhibit on the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, America's first central intelligence agency.

  • I was tasked with finding out everything I could about this experimental organization, which included researching the company roster hastily pulled together to fight the axis.

  • OSS was an odd creature at once, a collection of men and women from the upper crust of society on America's east coast, and a magnet for astonishingly talented and creative people from all walks of life, from Wall street lawyers to Hollywood filmmakers, even the future chef Julia Child.

  • In OSS, they could almost literally design their own adventures.

  • My head swimming in research, I made an offhand connection one day that would lead to unchartered waters.

  • I remember reading in the past that Ernest Hemingway and Colonel David Bruce of the OSS had liberated the bar of the Ritz in Paris from the Germans in August 1944.

  • Now I wondered if there was more to the story.

  • Hemingway would not have been out of place in the OSS.

  • He loved secrets and the edge they gave him.

  • He craved action, but was not cut out for conventional soldiering.

  • He moved easily between social and economic classes and across borders.

  • I thought to myself that he had a lot in common with many of the other men in the spy business whom I had met or read about.

  • So had he been an oss spy of some sort?

  • What was the full story about Hemingway and intelligence in World War two?

  • The writer had tried his hand at various forms of spying and fighting on two continents.

  • The way stations were varied, often exotic.

  • The battlefields of Spain, the backstreets of Havana, a junk on the north river in China.

  • He seemed to gravitate to men and women who operated on their own in the shadows.

  • And then I learned something that surprised me.