World War 2 Spy Training Film: Undercover | OSS Film | ca. 1944

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This video - originally titled as "Undercover" - is a dramatized spy training film produced by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War 2. It was released in circa 1944.
The film analyzes preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Col. Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at Office of Strategic Services. Gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, good cover versus bad cover. Emphasizes proper attitude, study, and importance of support staff. Explains ways to infiltrate enemy territory. Illustrates effective and ineffective spy methods by comparing two agents. Shows ways to camouflage or dispose of revealing evidence. Explains techniques of blending into enemy culture and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in enemy country.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
On 13 June 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to centralize the nation's fragmented and uncoordinated intelligence activities during World War 2. An earlier attempt to do so, through the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI), formed 11 July 1941, had failed to achieve any real success because of unclear lines of authority and bureaucratic jealousies among the various government agencies concerned. As a part of the plan for establishing the OSS, some of the COI functions, such as domestic information activities, became the responsibility of the newly formed Office of War Information. The OSS took on others: the collection and analysis of strategic information and the planning and performance of special operations, particularly in the realms of espionage and sabotage. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were to supervise and direct OSS activities. Col. William J. Donovan became director.
Throughout its existence, the organization of the OSS constantly changed as it grew to an eventual strength of 12,000 personnel. Basically, the OSS consisted of a headquarters and various subordinate offices in and near Washington, D.C., and a series of field units, both in the United States and overseas. Two exceptions were Latin America, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled intelligence activities, and the South West Pacific theater, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur refused to accept the OSS.
Three branches of the OSS exemplified the breadth and scope of its operations. The secret intelligence branch dealt with sabotage, spying, demolitions, secret radio communications, and paramilitary functions. The morale operations branch handled the propaganda functions vested in the OSS. The research and analysis office gathered extensive information on all aspects of the areas in which U.S. forces operated. The OSS collected even the most trivial data and used it to further the war effort. All three branches had agents in both enemy and neutral areas.
It is the secret intelligence area from which the OSS gained much of its glamour. Many of its operations were in fact more dramatic than the fictionalized accounts found in books and films. In Burma, for example, a small OSS unit of twenty men operated behind Japanese lines with such success that it likely eliminated more than 15,000 of the enemy. Beginning in 1943, OSS personnel, along with British and other Allied teams, took part in the Jedburgh operation, which sent hundreds of three-man teams into France and the Low Countries to organize and aid underground forces in advance of the invasion of Europe. In 1944, another group smuggled an Italian inventor out of his German-occupied homeland to the United States, where he was able to produce an effective counter-measure to the torpedo he had designed for the Germans.
The end of World War 2 brought the demise of the OSS, by an executive order effective 1 October 1945. The departments of state and war split the functions, personnel, and records of the office. It was the experience gained by the OSS that laid the foundation for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), established in 1947.
World War 2 Spy Training Film: Undercover | OSS Film | ca. 1944
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[@curtiscarpenter9881]

I should think recruiting as many assets as well as spies should be as important to effectively running operations continuously.🤯🧠💴💶💷🥂🍾

[@jarrottkenney288]

Io

[@jerseywalcott6408]

Lol

[@pressgurkan]

Me walking into a barber Barber: "What do you want?" Me: "Enemy area style"

[@claudiamanta1943]

😂

[@WhoTheFuckidyFuck]

Where are you going? "Enemy Town" Flawless Cover

[@bwilliams00181]

Beautiful.

[@danhanley5618]

From the Colonel Hogan school of espiange playbook

[@dambuk0]

Just a simplification so as not to say any specific town, but still funny since they could have just said "town X"

[@roflmows]

I SEE NOTHING! I KNOW NOTHING!!

[@screamingfox5666]

My cover would be an architect... I would be researching the lovely historic Enemian (i wonder thats how something or someone from Enemy town is called) architecture, so I can build a city, and it would be called 'New Enemy' =D...

[@paulmorley1225]

Everyone who watched this can put "trained US spy" on their resume.

[@davidvaughn817]

Anyone can do that, regardless.

[@BlueBoy0]

Which would immediately give away how bad of a spy they are.

[@paulmorley1225]

@@BlueBoy0 Not if they're a double agent.

[@Jebu911]

"how did the nazis get 1000 more fighter aircrafts?" "I was working hard like i was told"

[@mr.pavone9719]

So imagine you've been selected to watch this film and before they roll it your training officer walks in, says a few words and tells his projectionist to roll the film, only to see some other officer come it to say a few words then tell his guy to roll the film...

[@BobWidlefish]

Filmception.

[@jmansfield8554]

That’s when you really need to remember that exfiltration plan you made. The classic, “Excuse me just a moment, I’m experiencing projectile diarrhea” may work in a pinch but some of The Enemy’s sharper counter-agents might be on to this.

[@aryootidjo3357]

may... Set Up

[@KN-jr6tx]

Ha! I was thinking the same. Perhaps they videotape every time they introduce the film to a new class, then bootstrap it on the front of the most recent version? I think Strangers With Candy riffed on old films like this in one of the episodes.

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

Yeah the beginning bothered me too!

[@Hwyadylaw]

Enemy Area seems like a nice place to live.

[@karenaudreytodd]

It was.Why do you think the British declared war on Enemy Area? It wasn't because they gave a shit about Poland otherwise they would have declared war on Russia as well. Russia wasn't a nice place to live though, so the British were not jealous of Russia...

[@CuttySobz]

@@karenaudreytodd it's true. It's rumored that Hitler payed one last visit to enemy area posing as a seaman's mechanic before fleeing to his subarctic base in antarctica.. despite the fact that the British had already "liberated" it from the Germans.. a ballsy move but truly a testament to the beauty and the history of enemy area.. anyway just a piece of history for you nerds.

[@markzimmerman7279]

The biggest sailfish in Michigan waters? None here.

[@JiveDadson]

Never underestimate the cunning of Area Man.

[@JohnsonLobster]

Are you crazy? There is The War going on over there.

[@Lebrenth]

Had a dream I was a spy. I was asked to play the piano. I played and sang Springsteen's "Born in the USA". Little details like that can give you away.

[@InParticularNobody]

Did your captors deduce that it was in fact an ironic song that satirised traditional notions of patriotism? Did they take you their bosom and train you up as a double-agent? I do hope so.

[@Lebrenth]

@@InParticularNobody what an optimistic and insightful possibility! But I'm afraid not. In fact I knew right away by the look they gave me that I made a big mistake.

[@markrainford1219]

It was when they pulled the trigger, you realised this was going to be a bad day.

[@Tabu11211]

I laughed way to hard at this

[@solomonheppner]

Frankfurter

[@xXHardCorrXx]

My great grandfather was a French immigrant and OSS agent. No one in the family ever knew about it as he kept it a secret to the grave. We were notified after his death.

[@BlueBoy0]

By who?

[@spiritmatter1553]

An in-law told me he met Osama bin Laden. I don’t believe him either.

[@Tribecasoothsayer]

Agent Al has a very convincing Enemy accent and dressing style. Those high waisted pants and short little boy-sized tie were the height of German, err, Enemy fashion.

[@BushcraftingBogan]

So ya got a weak back? When did ya get a weak back? Oh, about a week back.

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

Real eyes realize real lies.

[@johnr797]

@@Make-Asylums-Great-Again how can we see if our eyes aren't real?

[@Floedekage]

Nice profile picture! 💚

[@westdakota9180]

Third base

[@ketaminefetishist]

Booooo

[@robertzeurunkl8401]

28:30 - draw a map disguised as harmless doodling. Harmless doodling looks exactly like a map. LOL

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

"If you think I've got the ability, don't worry about my attitude." Nice to see "titanically stupid" isn't something we invented recently.

[@neonsashimidream1075]

If I was living in a country at war with a city named "Enemy Town," I'd really be questioning if we were on the right side of history.

[@wolfrainexxx]

What about Friendly Town? That would make me think I was *_definitely_* on the wrong side of history.

[@brandonsutton7474]

Because back then there weren't idiots such as yourself. If it was enemy territory and you didn't know who the enemy was then your idiot and shouldn't rven be enlisted due to your extremely low intelligence.

[@Soykes]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@wolfrainexxx]

@@Soykes "No, it's Enemy Town that are the baddies."

[@areaxisthegurkha]

If you live in Enemy town, it would be called Friendly town in terms of video game logic.

[@terrancat]

Is this why Silents & boomers would say "just go to the place saying you're looking to work". That 10 second interview is the most unbelievable part of this film.

[@thehalalreviewer]

“We like our men to have a good working knowledge of other methods of penetration.” It can come in handy from time to time.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I wonder if that sounded as odd in 1944 as it does now...

[@Nocturnal_Rites]

And here Al gave up his chance to show all his knowledge of other methods of penetration when he turned down that streetwalker...

[@thehalalreviewer]

@@Nocturnal_Rites Lol 😂 I’m sure there were other opportunities

[@GuinessOriginal]

That’s what she said

[@Aoekin]

laughing so hard at this comment

[@garrysekelli6776]

love how all the foreign enemies speak english.

[@ygk1994]

Garry Sekelli almost everyone (*except the f### french*) can speak english right? Its not that odd.

[@divinefever]

YGK, oh yeah cause everyone in Europe speaks english with eachother rather than their own language

[@Brakvash]

Extremely Thick American English at that xD

[@KirbyMan12]

It's a joke don't-cha know? Amongst themselves they speak English flawlessly. However in the open, or on the internet. They talk in some weird non-english language. It's the longest running joke in history. ~Wikipedia.

[@firstlast1047]

Wanted to make sure you did not have to learn a foreign language.

[@Denver_Risley]

An overconfident agent doesn't have to look for trouble. Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words. Of. Wisdom.

[@APoisonousTree]

That is John Ford the film director playing the Lawyer!

[@Woodsaras]

I thought ive seen him Somewhere!!!!!!!!

[@jamesdewane1642]

His acting was better than anyone else's in the movie. Not a good move for a spy to draw attention to himself by being competent above the level of his peers!

[@fastradioburst253]

I was just going to watch a few minutes of this, but it was so entertaining I watched the whole thing. Better than most Netflix movies, I must say.

[@vanargrand3199]

"No, it's not kind, it's my job." That line was pretty heavy ngl

[@CNCTEMATIC]

No place like Enemy Town. You have to check it out if you ever go to Enemy Area.

[@christinagray1456]

😂

[@finncullen]

"Hey buddy is this the way to Enemy Town?" "Well... we call it Our Town to be honest." *sidelong glance*

[@cameronc.cameronson7632]

Ugh, imagine having to spend years of your life in enemy capital, what a nightmare.

[@profesionalshitposter675]

imagine explaining to the soviets your an American spy

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@profesionalshitposter675 Probably best not to tell them at all. The implication is that "Albert Horn" was sent to German-occupied Czechoslovakia (there is a brief film clip of central Prague).

[@zulubeatz1]

T was 44 he only had to wait a few months for the Russians.

[@rickwrites2612]

In cold war, Moscow was the most difficult assignment for case officers according to The Moscow Rules by Joanne Mendez former Chief of Disguise and CIA vet. It's a book but there are long videos of her speaking about it.

[@Re_Doubt]

Especially if that enemy capital is Washington DC

[@VAC2]

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You are welcome, VAC2. Thank you for watching.

[@everydayhero5076]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[@abemi869]

Hey mate, can you share the links. These are very important aspects of human history and heritage.

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@@abemi869 I have them all saved on my personal home server. If you would like we can exchange emails and I can either give you acess to said server or email the ones you want to you or upload them to a file sharing service!

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@@abemi869 and yes I totally agree things like these need to be preserved! I have been archiving footage from.....basically as far back as possible to now. I have videos of interviews of civil war vets at a meet up with their wifes. Its amazing!

[@goodlookingcorpse]

The thing that leaps out at me is that there's so much framing. They couldn't just have a narrator introduce the film, but had to have a frame story where an officer is talking to soldiers about to watch a film. They couldn't just say "anything which makes people ask questions is bad", they have to have a story where a guy tells another guy "anything which makes people ask questions is bad". I suppose they were worried the audience was going to get confused. But I imagine some Lieutenant saying "Now listen you men; I want this film to interrogate the notion of audience and performer, see? I want every man in the OSS to ask himself if watching a film isn't itself a kind of performance, is that understood?" 😄

[@jebsmith323]

Film production was part of the war effort.

[@smudgey1kenobey]

The guy in the dark glasses is John Ford, isn’t it?

[@danielgregg2530]

@@smudgey1kenobey I keep thinking so too.

[@M4jeff]

The Bugs Bunny cartoon music adds a hint of authenticity to the SOE/OSS training manual.

[@MondoBeno]

My great grandfather worked for the CIA before 1975 when he retired. He told me that every American businessman who worked overseas was working for the CIA in one way or another. He would provide maps, info on neighborhoods, what languages were common other than Spanish (German, Yiddish, Lebanese) and what kind of foreigners were coming to the hotels. He spoke fluent German (and looked German too) so that gave him an edge.

[@440mopar5]

Your not a good story teller. What a crock of shxt.

[@Aoekin]

thats pretty awesome and I know it was a hard job for sure back then. My colleges uncle was a spy in he military and had some wild stories about sitting in a tree for almost a week, awaiting a high official German and his crew to show up.

[@thedrewb2273]

They speak Arabic in Lebanon - don't you speak American?? ;)

[@MondoBeno]

@@thedrewb2273 The Arabic spoken in Lebanon sounds different than what they speak in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He worked in Mexico City a lot, so he would report back on the ethnic enclaves.

[@aryootidjo3357]

@@MondoBeno Legend or Covert ... ? Story

[@LewdCustomer]

I learned the Underground mostly works above ground.

[@LewdCustomer]

Where is the enema area anyway?

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@LewdCustomer There is a clue or two that "Albert Horn" was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I would say his more slapdash colleague Charlie was disguised as a Spanish fisherman.

[@ianh1504]

I think youre gonna blow your cover when you show up and you're like, ahh, so lovely to be back home at *ENEMY AREA*

[@Dick_Gozinya]

I just watched a movie about a buncha guys watching a movie.

[@shable1436]

Me too, we bored i guess

[@angry_zergling]

For some reason almost all US training films are films about people watching a training film.

[@johnr797]

@@angry_zergling wonder if there's some sort of psychological reason for it, like it makes you identify with the movie watchers so you end up paying more attention

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

@@angry_zergling ...and I'm watching a movie about you now. Sit up straight!

[@BobWidlefish]

Spy-ception!

[@Tribecasoothsayer]

When I go for my next haircut I’m going to request the Enemy Area Style

[@johnr797]

@MichaelKingsfordGray I dunno, I've heard most people's first encounter with a mohel can get pretty dicey

[@Jebu911]

To be fair lot of guys have that hitler jugend hairstyle nowdays.

[@lizettewanzer8650]

😝🤪

[@TimKGrimes]

Hahaga

[@rockstarJDP]

Remember, rule no.1 of undercover espionage is never reveal your real name. James Bond clearly never saw this training movie.

[@impaugjuldivmax]

unless that is not your real name

[@wolfrainexxx]

@@impaugjuldivmax James Bond is definitely not his real name, but it is Bond's real name.

[@JoeBlobA]

Because he was a Brit. This is an American video ;)

[@wolfrainexxx]

@@JoeBlobA If Bond had watched these videos, he might have been more successful. :p

[@VashStarwind]

You never heard of the theory that "James Bond" was just a code name, and thats why there were so many different guys as "James Bond's"? ha

[@PotentialEn3rgy]

44:57 There's the part 100% of agents ignored.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Some probably, male hormones being what they are, but it could well have ended badly.

[@ThommyofThenn]

A lot of guys have low testosterone. Some men are even asexual. The more you know

[@Guesswhosbackagain]

I always whisper my internal dialogue so enemy spies won't hear my inner thoughts.

[@Duncan_McFly82]

Right!?! 🤣

[@christinagray1456]

Lol

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

This is utterly fascinating. I’m sure the basic principles remain identical.

[@wolfrainexxx]

Except, in modern society, Al would be the suspicious person while the other guy would just be seen as a Tik Tok'r trying to get a selfie with a submarine.

[@christinecameron1612]

I would NOT have sent charlie to the port town. Not only is he brash, egotistical, and inclined to chase the ladies, but but because of being from there, he would be likely to be recognized, and someone might question his cover.

[@ianh1504]

The guys notes said inclined to erratic behavior, not erotic....

[@jamesdewane1642]

I was rooting for him the whole time.

[@johnr797]

TOTALLY agree 👍👏👌🙌💯😀

[@lololololololol]

Spies always chase the ladies. It's part of the job

[@chris_sndw]

He is the born James Bond.

[@smudgey1kenobey]

I’m reading a book about the American spy Virginia Hall. Everything in this film makes sense and matches her experience. Really interesting. Thanks!

[@exwaifupillow]

Virginia Hall was such a badass

[@donteanka6196]

Love those videos, better entertainment then nowadays movie industry. Thanks for sharing!

[@JoeBlobA]

I 100% agree

[@martinw.8572]

I love how in literally any of these films featuring a german address book, its labled "Adressebuch", which in German makes no sense. It is either "Adressbuch" (literal translation) or "Adressenbuch" ('book of adresses'). I guess that would've blown the cover quite readily.

[@johnrogan9420]

Viel danke schone comrade.

[@skram841]

these old training videos from the 40s is my new love

[@Mikegeb4545]

It's funny that offering a cigrate is like offering a tea or coffee during this time. And no one says no thank you I don't smoke, when it is offered.

[@saxoncodex9736]

Remember using your own name, can result in the Enemy greeting you with. "Ah Mr. Bond I've been expecting you".

[@mistermusturd6402]

Always remember to count three with the thumb, index, and middle fingers.

[@AbeTheSigma007]

What a spy needs. A number code name. A suit from Seville Row. An Aston Martin. An Oxford education. Cigarettes in a metal case. A cigarette lighter. Several forms of currency. Subtle sarcasm. Know small ice breaker words in foreign languages. And when necessary, a duck hat you can wear as you swim to fool the enemy. Note - make sure it’s not Duck Hunting Season. And finally. Always use your real name and introduce yourself announcing your last name first, followed by your first name...

[@erpizzaiol5457]

He sure will blend in ENEMY AREA

[@arcang2102]

He's being facetious!& rightly so!! Ian Fleming spy novels aggrandized & romantisized the exclusive privatized lifestyle of espionage,which made it to the Silver Screen.Bcs that was thrill-seeking entertainment of that time.its really about the gentrification of infiltrating fascist minded infidels inside the asset stripping of cultural wealth thru the usurpation of their natural resources & acreages of land. The public recruiting of such narced-out, snitch brigade nonsense is completly ridiculous!!!

[@Tawadeb]

And always order a vodka martini shaken not stirred

[@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689]

A Walther PPK is also very important

[@tihsitef8183]

Seems like having anxiety is a job requirement

[@jayfrank1913]

My anxiety would hit the roof if I were a spy in Enemytown!

[@Beauty_Bot]

Tell me how that 'streetwalker' has nicer clothes than I ever will lmao.

[@boltvanderhuge8711]

Best ice breaker/spy identifier: “ eh? That’s good cover!”

[@PEWPEWGURU]

5:15 nobody would ever expect an accountant to become a lawyer 🤫

[@KapnKerfuffle]

This reminds me of that scene in Inglorious Basterds where the guy holds up his first three fingers instead of his back three fingers to order three beers and the Nazis find him out.

[@yourlifeisagreatstory]

I thought about the same thing when they were in the bar

[@ichigorobei]

Actually, to indicate the number three (3) in Germany with your fingers, you hold up your THUMB, index finger, and middle finger, NOT your back three fingers. The mistake the guy made was that he held up his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger instead of using his thumb, index finger, and middle finger. Similarly, in continental Europe, to indicate the number one (1) with fingers, you hold up your THUMB, not your index finger as we do in the U.S. The number two (2) is indicated with the THUMB and INDEX finger, NOT the index and middle fingers.

[@Conner624]

That's what I was thinking of

[@tylerbrass4002]

@@ichigorobei This is actually super interesting, thank you for dropping this tidbit.

[@reckless20]

@@ichigorobei in continental Europe, to indicate the number one (1) with fingers, you hold up your THUMB how'd they differ number one (1) from a thumb up then?

[@roflmows]

watching this makes me think of The Running Man. not the arnold movie...but the Stephen King novella. it's amazing how closely Al's story meets with Ben Richards' story. they follow the same principles, same techniques. very cool.

[@Jebu911]

your comment made me wanna re-watch the running man and I'm talking about the arnold movie.

[@MarcBrewer]

Academy Award winning director John Ford as attorney JP Baldwin!

[@skipads5141]

I was wondering why there was no mention of that.

[@seanstrygg]

Charles' trainer reminded me of the film director John Ford for some reason.

[@ralphshelley9586]

That was him!

[@jayfrank1913]

@@ralphshelley9586 It sure looked like him. But Ford did lose an eye on Midway in 1942. He usually wore an eye patch after that. Maybe he has a glass eye in this?

[@scarfhs1]

Nice to hear that at their top secret headquarters the door is always open!

[@vksasdgaming9472]

How else could they recruit new agents? Anybody who walks in is auditioned.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

The takehome message: Don't Be An Agent Charles. Do Be An Agent Al.

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[@elmstreetsurvivor1866]

I'm from Riverside, CA. This film is 100% accurate: Everyone from San Bernardino and around it calls it San Berdoo.

[@robertrobertson7129]

Thank you both worth seeing and thinking on....good history

[@billbusen]

This is like Goofus and Gallant for spies.

[@ManInTheBigHat]

I took a class in German at NYU. Only I wasn't enrolled in the school. I was standing in for a friend who needed the credits. I got him an A and I learned to speak German in two semesters. I had to answer to his name and memorize his SS number and other information about his credits and classes. On the second day of class someone came in to gather this info from us. I had to act. It was fun. Years later I ran into the professor of that class in the street. He called me by my false name. I fessed up to the ruse. He was not amused.

[@connormckibben5986]

Congratulations. You've turned yourself into a national asset, mein genosse. HAHAHA, seriously, what an awesome story!

[@kimball4151]

I never would have fessed up years later

[@Beethoven80]

Being from Germany and not from the U.S., I had to read the sentence about the SS number twice.

[@Tawadeb]

I dont quite understand this

[@ManInTheBigHat]

@@Beethoven80 : That's curious. It didn't occur to me the double meaning of "SS." In retrospect perhaps I should have spelled out the words, as follows: Social Security number.

[@westdakota9180]

My name is Hans Sauerkraut, I was born in enemy area, and grew up here. I am a barber who specializes in enemy hairstyles. I enjoy long walks on the beach while I look for submarines- uhh I mean whales

[@barnabycat7002]

Be sure to whisper your thoughts. You never know who might be listening.

[@smenard1107]

I use to love summers at “EL-PORTO” as a kid

[@geronimo501st4]

It's a real city in Portugal.

[@ramixnudles7958]

Is there a certificate of completion available? I need to pad my Professional Development Plan for work.

[@chelseahill2529]

Thank you so much for compiling all of these videos! Fascinating!

[@TheBestFilmArchives]

You are welcome, Chelsea Hill. Thank you for watching.

[@PontiacCrusader]

Opportunity o

[@dennismason3740]

The airplane factory that Al worked in was full of Double-Wasp engines, so funny. Pratt/Whitney engines powered more American planes than any other.

[@onlinebills9169]

We have to give appreciation to the composer, conductor and musicians of the music playing throughout the presentation. Similar to all suspense movies and cartoons of the times.

[@kevinfleming9542]

"Cigarette?" "Yes.I know"

[@bartacomuskidd775]

SPY! SPY!

[@Andytlp]

One wrong word or action and youre under suspicion. People were paranoid back then and i bet there we're rewards for turning in possible spies so there were no shortage of trihards.

[@thomasciarlariello3228]

1935 to 1945 was mythologized as some romantic adventure age.

[@paulloveless9180]

My question was why was there so much clarinet in the late 40's?

[@Duncan_McFly82]

🤣🤣🤣

[@AboveAvgMan]

Benny goodman

[@t.b.5115]

Why is there so much guitar in the 90's?

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[@lilmike2710]

This was nothing more than a sneaky ciggarette advertisement

[@johnrogan9420]

Cigarette

[@TheBestFilmArchives]

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[@awesomenessbravoness596]

The Best Film Archives. i love your vids mate. the vid on how to take someone down really helped alot. i got a attacker to his nees in two hits. your content is really astronomically awesome. you are the best channel. thank you and have a blessful day.

[@TheBestFilmArchives]

You are welcome my friend. Thank you for watching.

[@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689]

Last night while watching (spoiler alert) the episode 4 of "Master of the air" on Apple TV Plus+, the techniques demonstrated in this video helped me to understand how the Resistance identified the german spy among the American crew members they were trying to send back to England. During the interrogation, they asked the crew members to write a few things and then write the date. The suspect (ordinary looking with no german accent) wrote the date in dd-mm-yyyy format. Minutes later one of the resistance members asked the suspect to light a cigarette and the poor bastard used a Wermacht standard issue IMCO lighter instead of a Zippo. Executed on the spot just like the characters in this video.

[@SpeedDarlingtonTv]

Enjoyed watching this

[@rogue-ish5713]

"Nothing will blow you quicker.... " The men chuckling in the room and the OSS officer telling the men the quiet down, Jerry aint joking.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Possibly not sexual slang in the 1940s.

[@Jebu911]

@@stevekaczynski3793 True pretty sure their slang was quite different. I mean gay just meant you were happy. Had nothing to do with being penetrated from the rear like those towns.

[@Christian-sf4ey]

Is that John Ford playing Baldwin, the lawyer, about 5 ins. in?

[@fstop6139]

yes

[@scottywarren3498]

Host: Would you mind saying a few words... Guest Speaker: ... A few words

[@lizettewanzer8650]

🤣😂

[@alomaalber6514]

love his paisley silk tie, rare to find now, the big fat wonderful short silk 1940's ties.

[@peacejoy1396]

Now I know how to be a Spy now!!!

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

28:38 That ‘harmless doodling’ looked like a dead giveaway to me.

[@ignitetheinferno1858]

Plot Twist: This is the only time that the secret Axis Power, “Enemy Area” was revealed. It was such a splendid country that the history books expunged all records of it to keep people from being sympathetic to the enemy.

[@willcal2738]

these are so optimisitc as a whole, on how the enemy would treat our guys if caught or sussed

[@checker297]

ikr, it was more likely shoot first, ask questions later unless they were specifically trying to leak false information.

[@Sashazur]

If the movie showed them all being caught, tortured and shot, they probably would have trouble meeting their spy recruiting goals.

[@davidbenner2289]

Many of my mentors in my early life through my late teens were OSS and even MI6 from WWII. Dear old Dad did not get in until the late 40's/early 50's after leaving the military after WWII. He became a legend in clandestine services and gurilla warfare: teaching and doing. I lived all over the World, his family often close by or with him. That in itself my siblings and I a good and unusual education. A lot of the stuff in this film was was still being used into the 1990's. I can't say after that. Dear old Mom, also involved for several years, and dear old Dad are together in Arlington. Our Government is quite happy with the the secrets that died with them. This stuff was and is serious business. People died when people lied.

[@TakeNoteOfThat]

No one believes any of this 🙁

[@davidbenner2289]

@@TakeNoteOfThat gosh, my feelings are hurt. Does this mean we can't be friends. No, I have a dog. I don't need friends. As for the varsity: it's all true. It's a big World out there. You need to get out more.

[@TakeNoteOfThat]

@@davidbenner2289 did you just try to repurpose a piece of dialogue from "Tombstone" as your own?

[@davidbenner2289]

@@TakeNoteOfThat nope. Fill me in.

[@kd6844]

Wait. You just exposed family secrets?

[@davidd5523]

"Are you set on your cover?" "I have a full time job, as an accountant"

[@johnrogan9420]

I am Joe Biden...46th USA Oresident... Very convincing to our enemies....not!

[@linusp9316]

@@johnrogan9420 Calm down, weirdo.

[@DannnnnyW]

That outfit at 28:24 lol!

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

I'd rat on Charles just for him being such a know-it-all.

[@ElvenMans]

Tom & Jerry music, cool

[@KB-eb8dj]

I want to become a smoker every time I watch these movies.

[@meganegbert8570]

"El Porto"

[@bladdnun3016]

Adressebuch

[@keithklassen5320]

My old stomping grounds...

[@HootOwl513]

The Cioppino in El Porto is squisito because they use the best fish heads. [Only don't order Cioppino - that's a San Francisco thing. Order Suppo del Mare.]

[@johnr797]

Invicta

[@podcastfan2544]

HammerLand

[@holmanrw]

I bet the British were less than ecstatic about having their training methods and procedures committed to film and distributed through the colossus that the OSS quickly grew into. The British worked with small numbers of carefully picked agents where the Americans went for quantity over quality. The same attitude can still be seen today with Special Forces the British SFs total a few hundred men but are generally acknowledged to be the best in the world whereas the US has tens of thousands of men they classify as SF.

[@ID-8491]

Delta Force is the true equivalent of SAS. Interestingly, the only unit called Special Forces is the Green Berets. Semantics, you know.

[@shable1436]

Look at the population differences, and military size, the ratio is similar

[@josephfelder33]

The relative ratio works things out. The US doesn't just hand out SF classifications, either. They have a rigorous assessment, selection and then training process just like the SAS.

[@ramstacp]

You have no idea how the British felt about it. For all we know they consulted on the film. So, in the future try not to make assumptions about things you know nothing about.

[@channelmoved9096]

The historical record was the exact opposite. The British spy effort started out as a disaster of blown cover.

[@ferros8215]

Agent 1: I talk that East Enemy Area language, Comrade. Handler 1: What? East? --------------------------------------------------- Agent 2: Okay, If you want to waste time, but I tell you I know al Porter like a book. Handler 2: Perhaps the enemy has added a couple of chapters and a Wall since you've left.

[@DrewberTravels]

I really love the music in this film.

[@GMATveteran]

This is exactly the type of music that I'd want to be played (perhaps by an orchestra following me around) while I'm on an espionage operation. :-D

[@taxationistheft3389]

GMATveteran lol

[@edspencer7121]

It's not about walking around with a small mirror glued to the toe of your shoe?

[@JohnAdams-ki1fv]

Awesome find.

[@TheVetusMores]

Peter Lorre. What a treat!

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

53:35 I'm surprised they were able to use that kind of language in a film from 1944!

[@skipads5141]

When he wakes him up in bed and he says "Christ!" too. It was a training film, not a public release.

[@bencecserkuti7110]

A bit late to the party, but let me say thank you for all your hard work with these videos. They make for a very interesting watch.

[@davidstrohl]

Well, it’s dated and dumbed-down, but there’s still good tradecraft being taught here.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I agree.

[@tim9987]

Nice to see John Ford here