The Hour of the Cat (56 page)

Fintan Dunne, Former Detective and O.S.S. Agent,
Succumbs to Cancer at Age 63
(
N.Y. Standard
, April 16, 1961)

Fintan Dunne, a former city police detective who was recruited by General William J. Donovan as an early member of the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), died of lung cancer on March 31, at his winter residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Mr. Dunne, who served under General Donovan in France during WWI, was recruited into the O.S.S. in its formative days. He was sent into the field on a variety of clandestine intelligence missions, which took him behind enemy lines in Italy and occupied France.

At war's end, Mr. Dunne, who held the rank of captain, joined the Allied Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes. He resigned in September 1946 after publicly alleging that the criminal complicity of German physicians in the infamous sterilization and euthanasia programs was not being adequately prosecuted.

He subsequently founded the All-American Detective Agency, a successful pioneer in providing security services to private business. He sold the agency to Intercontinental Service Industries in 1958. For the past several years, he spent his winters in Florida. As well as his wife, Roberta, Mr. Dunne is survived by a niece, Mrs. Elba Munoz, of Miami, and four grand nieces and nephews.

Prudence Addison Babcock, Society Figure and Prison Reform
Advocate, Dies at 63/ Jailed for Three Years in ‘Lover's
Triangle' Murder of her husband.
(N.Y. World-Journal-Tribune
, March 11, 1967) π