Brookfield Museum Hosts WWII OSS Presentation

From Brookfield Museum: Robert Purssell of Brookfield, a retired engineer and research writer, will conduct a multi-media presentation on the WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) The program is scheduled for Monday, July 10, 2017 at 7:30 P.M., in the Brookfield Museum located at 165 Whisconier Road (Intersection of Routes 25 and 133) in Brookfield Center.

Purssell will focus on the challenges facing the newly created OSS and how the organization gained credibility. He will also selectively discuss specific achievements and the problems confronting the OSS as it infiltrated agents into enemy strongholds, organized resistance, and negatively impacted enemy morale. Finally Purssell will explain how the OSS experience influenced the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA Admission is free and following the program complimentary refreshments will be available. For more information on this and other planned events of the Brookfield Historical Society log onto www.brookfieldcthistory.org.

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