WASHINGTON (AP) — Hugh Montgomery never wrote a memoir. That just wasn’t done among his generation of spies.
But his exploits as a World War II combat veteran, CIA cold warrior and Washington power player could fill a dozen books.
Montgomery jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne. He went behind enemy lines for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA’s daring forerunner, where he was among the first Americans to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp. After returning to Harvard to earn his PhD, he joined the newly formed CIA, where he led spying operations against the Soviets in Rome, Paris and Moscow.
He’s been called one of the CIA’s founding fathers.
This month, he accepted the William D. Donovan award, named after the man who launched the OSS.
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