poison-pen

John Franklin Carter, who had picked up rumors the month before that Donovan was preparing a postwar intelligence plan, launched a preemptive strike, sending Roosevelt a poison-pen memo on October 26, which warned that the British had “already penetrated the Donovan organization” and would control the OSS if it ran intelligence after the war.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Dirty-tricks campaigns like poison-pen letters are depressingly common in Malaysia.

Dirty Tricks in Malaysia 2011

It would be one of many poison-pen memos soon targeting Donovan.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

It would be one of many poison-pen memos soon targeting Donovan.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

John Franklin Carter, who had picked up rumors the month before that Donovan was preparing a postwar intelligence plan, launched a preemptive strike, sending Roosevelt a poison-pen memo on October 26, which warned that the British had “already penetrated the Donovan organization” and would control the OSS if it ran intelligence after the war.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Fake German mailbags, stuffed with poison-pen letters whose addresses were copied from prewar German phone directories, were air-dropped in the hopes that German civilians would give the sacks to postmen to deliver the phony mail.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Falco gets what he needs from Hunsecker, but then is maneuvered to help ruin a mild-mannered jazz trumpeter (Martin Milner) with eyes for the poison-pen scribe's younger sister (Susan Harrison).

John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010

Falco gets what he needs from Hunsecker, but then is maneuvered to help ruin a mild-mannered jazz trumpeter (Martin Milner) with eyes for the poison-pen scribe's younger sister (Susan Harrison).

John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010

Falco gets what he needs from Hunsecker, but then is maneuvered to help ruin a mild-mannered jazz trumpeter (Martin Milner) with eyes for the poison-pen scribe's younger sister (Susan Harrison).

John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010

Fake German mailbags, stuffed with poison-pen letters whose addresses were copied from prewar German phone directories, were air-dropped in the hopes that German civilians would give the sacks to postmen to deliver the phony mail.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011