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- Birth nameGordon Cougill Merrick
- Gordon Merrick was born on November 8, 1904 in Easton, Maryland, USA. He was an actor. He died on March 21, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Appeared in the original 1939 Broadway production of "The Man Who Came To Dinner".
- His 1947 book "The Strumpet Wind" was a fictionalized account of his time in the OSS supervising a French double agent code-named "Forest".
- Wrote for the Washington Daily News, the Baltimore Evening Sun, PM and the New York Post.
- In May 1944 he joined the OSS's counterintelligence (X-2) branch where he was one of the earliest American spies to develop the practice of running double agents abroad.
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