Arthur J. Goldberg

Before he was secretary of labor under President John F. Kennedy and ambassador to the United Nations in the late 1960s, Goldberg was chief of the OSS Labor Desk. A civilian lawyer, Goldberg converted into an Army officer in 1943 so he could better interact with the military, and he was assigned to the Secret Intelligence Branch by William J. Donovan, then OSS director. Goldberg was ordered to infiltrate the underground labor movements in Europe. According to his OSS file, Goldberg was sent to "maintain relationships with various resistance groups operating in occupied countries to obtain information and to encourage and foment resistance."

Goldberg was so successful that Donovan wanted him returned to civilian status.

From the 46 pages of his OSS personnel file: "From time to time, but not continuously, the Director will require Major Goldberg, as a civilian, to perform certain missions on his behalf which may require his being sent to neutral countries such as Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland for secret intelligence activities involving Major Goldberg's special knowledge and skill of the European labor movement and intelligence contacts that pertain thereto. The Director, in view of these facts, requests Major Goldberg be placed on inactive status so that he can thereupon assume his former status as a civilian employee of OSS, available to perform the missions which the Director may from time to time have in contemplation for him."