Norman Holmes Pearson

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1987 NYT - YALE- A GREAT NURSERY OF SPOOKS
After the war, Pearson was able to help his colleague, Sir John Masterman, bust the British secrecy rules by publishing his classic account, ''The Double-Cross System.''
American studies
It must have been pleasant dining at Quaglino's, which his British colleagues couldn't afford, and the contacts with British writers and academics were rewarding.
Norman Holmes Pearson, the apostle of American studies at Yale, had a more gentlemanly war working within the X-2, or counterintelligence, branch of the O.S.S. with the top-secret code-breakers in England.