The Holohan Murder Case
The Holohan Murder Case concerned the death of OSS Major William Holohan in Italy during the Second World War.
In September 1944, the U.S. Army's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) dispatched teams of specially-trained soldiers into enemy-occupied territory to organize resistance movements. In Europe, one of those teams was dispatched to the Como, Italy area. Its mission was code-named "Chrysler". Many of the partisan groups in Europe and Asia were overtly communist in their allegiances. This greatly concerned some Allied planners, since the Communists could be expected to use their military power to take control of post-war government. The uprising in Paris in August 1944 was fomented by pro-Communist police who were then pushed aside by forces loyal to Charles de Gaulle. In Greece, a civil war erupted between Communist and anti-Communist partisan forces.
Read more about The Holohan Murder Case: Mission Chrysler, Communists, Questions, Trial in Absentia, A Committee Investigates, Confession
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