In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. In 1952, the GOP gained control of the House, Senate and White House for the first time in two decades. Then the truth came out.
On electrifying speaking tours and at campaign events, he recounted his World War II service, for which he had been awarded a Silver Star. He had joined the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and while behind enemy lines on a secret mission, he had captured the German physicist Otto Hahn, thus stopping the Germans from developing a nuclear bomb. He was captured by the Nazis and tortured in a concentration camp before escaping. He was the sole survivor of his OSS unit.
The audience for Stringfellow’s story grew and grew; soon he was going on national speaking tours. He was a terrific public speaker, and the details he shared of his spy mission were harrowing. He was forced to run over a pile of people burning to death, he said, and he watched his Nazi captors torture his friends as they tried to get him to talk.
, and did not appreciate Stringfellow’s stealing their valor. Soon, journalists and Utah Democratic leaders started digging and calling Stringfellow’s record into question.
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