Joseph Gould

Joseph Gould (born January 30, 1915 , † July 11, 1993 ) was an American trade unionist, journalist and intelligence officer of the OSS in World War II .

Life

In 1938, Gould was elected chairman of the film journalists' union.

In 1942 he enlisted in the US Army and was recruited to the OSS, which made him head of the Labor Division of the OSS agency in London. In this function he took over the management of Operation Hammer , in which he was commissioned in 1943 to find suitable German emigrants in Great Britain for a reconnaissance mission in the areas of Germany still occupied by the Wehrmacht . Through a bookseller he got in touch with Jürgen Kuczynski , whose father Robert René Kuczynski had been elected President of the Free Germany Movement in Great Britain .

In consultation with the GRU headquarters, Erich Henschke compiled a list of potential OSS agents; including Paul Lindner , Anton Ruh and Adolf Buchholz from Berlin, Kurt Gruber from the Ruhr area, Werner Fischer from Leipzig, Walter Strüwe from Frankfurt am Main and Emil Konhäuser from Bavaria, who were deployed after training led by Gould.

After the war, Gould received the rank of captain and the Bronze Star award from the US Army, which was presented to his son Jonathan S. Gould on January 25, 2010.

In 1946 Gould was discharged from the army, he returned to New York and resumed his work as a film publicist and advertising specialist. From 1983 to 1991 he was PR chief at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC

Fonts

• An OSS Officer's Own WW II Story: Of His Seven German Agents and Their Five Labor Desk Missions into Warring Germany. (Washington, DC, 1989)

literature

• Peter Rau: The Legacy of US Captain Joseph Gould. In: Junge Welt from March 29, 2005

Web links

• The legacy of US Captain Joseph Gould
• Werner Goldstein: Three Berliners jumped over Berlin (PDF; 1.1 MB) p. 8
• Jonathan S. Gould ": The OSS and the London" Free Germans "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/49.html