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Volume 52 - No. 46 November 10, 2022
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By Friedrich Gomez
In 2008, the National Archives in Washington, D. C. declassified top secret files which revealed the names of 24,000 individuals who served as official U. S. spies during WWII.
Shocking for many was the fact that many of those names included some of Hollywood’s greatest movie stars of the era. It readily became apparent that many movie stars didn’t just play the role of spies in motion pictures, but, ironically, they were actually real-life spies during the Second World War.
Over 80 years after the fact, this still remains one of Hollywood’s greatest secrets.
But, why were famous celebrities incorporated as U. S spies in the first place?
MOVIE STARS HAD A UNIQUE POWER TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE ABROAD WITHOUT RESTRAINT OR SUSPICION. U. S. and British Intelligence thought it advantageous to enlist the services of celebrities who had high-level and powerful fans in various industries.
Many celebrities had easy access to important and influential politicians, high ranking government officials, royalty, and heads of state, all of whom would grant special favours that later proved advantageous to the American WWII agenda.
And due to their recognition and celebrity clout, they also were able to pass through cus-
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toms and check-points with ease, without strictures and guidelines which the normal citizenry had to abide by.
And also, Hollywood stars never aroused suspicion as actually being top secret spies or espionage agents in real life.
In this exclusive, investigative report to The Paper, it will stun many to realise that these famous celebrity spies actually helped shape the outcome of the Second World War.
ACTOR JOHN WAYNE (1907-1979). By and large, it was often a mixed bag of celebrities with only a few who were not always wellreceived or popular with the public, depending on the historical timeline.
For example, when actor John Wayne entertained the U. S. troops during his USO tours in 1942 and 1943, he was greeted with a chorus of boos when he first walked on stage.
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After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Target.
Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women she loves to browse.
Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Target:
Dear Mrs. Davis: , Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Davis, are listed below and Because the WWII combat troops in the audience saw John Wayne, who was in his mid-30s, not as one of them but, rather, as a draft dodger.
After all, John Wayne never enlisted in the U. S. military and, instead, filed for a 3-A draft deferment which stated: “If the sole provider for a family of four were drafted, it could cause his family undue hardship.”
Wayne met the deferment guidelines because he was married and, indeed, had a family of four and was still a somewhat fledgling actor.
Thus, Wayne was booed during his 1942-43 WWII USO tours.
And yet a different timeline saw a different perception of John Wayne.
For example, many years later he was warmly greeted when he visited American soldiers in Vietnam during the summer of 1966.
Nonetheless, the ‘draft dodger’ label was occasionally resurrected and followed him, lurking in the shadows throughout his life.
are documented by our video surveillance cameras: 1. June 15: He took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking. 2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals. 3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money. 5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layaway. 6. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area. 7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged. 8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?' EMTs were called. The open fact that John Wayne never served in the military, haunted him for the rest of his life, mainly due to occasional public criticism which sporadically resurfaced in the newspapers. His third wife, Pilar Wayne, says he became: “A superpatriot for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying at home during the war.”
The Duke never spoke of his covert spy operations and how he secretly served the U. S. military during WWII. It was still highly-classified at the time.
But it would have expunged the draft-dodger stigma, which was a mule-kick to his innards.
When Wayne was still married to his first-wife, Josephine Wayne (1933-1945), he had just completed his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” -- but unknown to everyone, he lived a double life during those years.
All shrouded and hidden away in classified documents.
9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. 10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. 11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the ' Mission Impossible' theme. 12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his 'Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels. 13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!' 14. October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!' And last, but not least: 15. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.' One of the clerks passed out. •••• Government surveyors came to Ole's farm in the fall and asked if they could do some surveying. Ole agreed, and Lena even served them a nice meal at noon time. Ole, "Because you were so kind to us, we wanted to give you this bad news in person instead of by letter."
Ole replied, "Vaat’s da bad news?"
The surveyors stated, "Well, after our work here, we discovered your farm is not in Minnesota but is actually in Wisconsin!"
Ole looked at them and said, "Dat's the best news I hear in a long time. I yoost told Lena dis mornin dat I don't tink I can take anodder vinter in Minniesoda!." ••• Subject: Old friends meet in the here-after
Ruth: Hi, Jeannie!
Jeannie: Hi, Ruth! How’d you die?
Ruth: I froze to death.
Jeannie: How horrible!
Ruth: It wasn’t so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
Jeannie: I died of a massive
And the Duke, himself, never shed any light on it.
It is recorded that he lived by one of his favourite quotes: “Talk low. Talk slow. And don’t say too much.”
There were a few leaked rumours about Wayne being a heroic secret U. S. military spy . . . but rumours were just that: rumours, which are a country mile short of fact.
On 11 June 1979, soft-spoken movie icon, Marion Robert Morrison, better known to the world as John Wayne, lost another battle which stalked him, aside from the lifelong draft-dodger stigma.
He lost another kind of battle, his final battle to cancer at age 72.
When he died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Hospital, he was one of the most beloved Hollywood movie stars in history.
