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Very interesting!
I entered "assasinate Hitler OSS"
and "dead German OSS agent in Germany".
into Google
...and got nothing.


So I erased OSS and left the rest in and got....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/killing_hitler_01.shtml


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980803/europe.wanted_dead_or_al24.html


Operation Foxley




SIS and the XX (twenty) committee sent a turned German
spy to the US to work under the supervision
of SIS and the FBI. Hoover was somewhat disenchanted
with this operation because he wasn't in *complete* control
so the op. was terminated.

And David Kahn in his book Hitler's Spies
stated about "honest German spies:"
"Some may have worked in Spain or Sweden or
Switzerland; a few apparently eluded the FBI and radioed some
insignificant intelligence from the United States.


And no OSS



Operation Periwig

Interview of Leo Marks interviewed about some
of his activities with SIS, including Periwig
the scheme to parachute a willing German
POW into Germany with all the spy gear.
This man was supposed to die because
of some equipment malfunction.
SOE were not able to devise a parachute failure
that would not detectable by the Germans.



http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Leo/Amazon.html



We also tried to deceive the enemy into believing that there was a major
Resistance movement in Germany when none existed.


Field Marshall Templar disclosed to me that it was to be found on the body
of a double agent, a prisoner of war who'd cost many British lives--and
many German--and was going back into Germany, as he thought, for us.