Morrow Project "front" companies

[Project_Sardonicus]

I think the thing about OSS and SOE is they had to create people capable of special missions, unique tasks in an entirely hostile environment with only a few months training. Whilst at the same time working with a very limited pool of people, e.g. those who already had a fluent second language (and bearing in mind they were sharing those with military intelligence a really small pool).

It's a situation remarkably similar to the one posed by the Morrow Project.

If you look at the training, it was in small groups with a lot of one to one training. Not to mention when using the works of people like Colonel Fairbain very modern and ahead of the time.

So I thought it was an interesting model for how someone like the project, would take a small group of civilians many of whom would never have ever faced any real danger. Then in maybe 6 months or so turn them into people who could concievably be ambushing patrols. blowing up bridges and stabbing sentries.

Of course the other thing about OSS and SOE was both of them viewed their agents as being disposable if need be.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mrstephen.../training.html