New Book "FDR's 12 Apostles" Released

The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa - A wine merchant, a madcap Harvard anthropologist, a Parisian playboy pal of Hemingway's, and two ex-French Foreign Legionnaires.

Characters in a comedy? No, FDR's spy network! Hal Vaughan has written the first behind-the-scenes look into how President Roosevelt bypassed the U.S. State Department to plan the invasion of Vichy, North Africa in FDR's 12 Apostles.

Paris-based Vaughan, who has spent over forty years as a U.S. diplomat and newsman, used the unpublished memoirs of the "apostles" and newly declassified Office of Strategic Service (OSS) and foreign archives, to reveal the desperate, clandestine actions of these men.

Discover how they, along with their OSS partners, overwhelmed Nazi, Italian, and French treachery to pave the way for General Eisenhower's Operation Torch landings and the eventual assassination of Vichy French leader Jean-François Darlan.

Free! No registration required! Thursday, 1 February; 12:00 noon - 1 pm. Join the author for an informal chat and book signing. -- www.spymuseum.org