Beverly Bowie

OSS Agent

"Beverly Bowie, an assistant editor of National Geographic, was the first OSS man to reach Bucharest after the German withdrawal in the fall of 1944. Other American officers arrived to find Bowie already a regular guest at meetings of the Romanian cabinet. 'Before they vote on anything,' explained the OSS officer with tongue in cheek, 'they ask me what I think. I go into a trance and figure out what Franklin D. Roosevelt would do, then give 'em the answer. They pass all my laws unanimously. I never thought running a country was so easy. '"