Joseph Toy Curtiss

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1942 The head of the O.S.S., William Donovan, called his friend Wallace Notestein, a historian of 17th-century Britain, who in turn tapped a young instructor, Joseph Toy Curtiss, to run the project.
1987 NYT - YALE- A GREAT NURSERY OF SPOOKS
1992 NYT - Joseph Toy Curtiss, 91, Member Of Yale Faculty for Four Decades
Jonathan Edwards Trust
The man who recruited Curtiss for this role, Donald Downes (Yale '26), was to become one of the most controversial figures in the history of the O.S.S.
The original idea was that Curtiss would work in Switzerland, incidentally providing cover for Allen Dulles, who later became the Director of Central Intelligence.
When Switzerland was cut off by the Nazi invasion of southern France, Curtiss went instead to Istanbul, where he operated as an O.S.S. agent under cover of Robert College - an early precedent for the unhappy practice of using American...