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Posted By: Julie Vognar

The Tokyo movies he took were of absiolutely no use to the U.S.

However, he deduced, from listening to a meeting in Switzerland in German, in which the greatest german scientist (working for germany) said nothing about a-bombs, of course, that the Germans (it was 1944) were making almost no progress on developing an a-bomb, and we would have them in ruins (which we did--I saw them) before any such thing began to happen.

Fortunately, he was right.

It isn't just women: it's the juxtoposition of major league baseball catcher and O.S.S. spy that turns people on. Although he couldn't hit for beans, he was a major league catcher for 17 years, and some pitchers liked to pitch to him. He was already "famous" before the war because he got a law degree from Columbia, and learned a bunch of languages. Sports reporters loved to say things like, he always had the New York Times waiting for him on the bench.

Read Davidof's "The Catcher was a Spy." It debunks a lot of the mystique, and describes Berg as a lonely man
who wasn't terribly interesting, but was surrounded by interesting people all his life.

And somehow managed to guess right about the germans and the a-bomb.

Julie