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- Donald C. Downes
- Donald Chase Downes
- Donald Downes was born on September 30, 1903 in the USA. Donald was a writer, known for Orders to Kill (1958) and The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962). Donald died in March 1983 in Northridge, California, USA.
- Spent several years teaching at various boarding schools in New England.
- Graduated from Yale.
- Has six siblings.
- When the United States entered World War II he joined the OSS where he worked in counter intelligence.
- In 1940 after being turned down by the United States' Office of Naval Intelligence and the U.S. Army's G-2 intelligence service he offered his services to England's MI6's British Security Co-ordination based out of Rockefeller Center in New York.
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