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Berg enrolled in 32 different classes at Sorbonne (University of Paris)

Spy Career

  • Office of Inter-American Affairs; 1942
  • Caribbean & South America
  • Office of Strategic Services; 1943
  • Secret Intelligence branch
  • Parliamentary Operations Officer
  • Parachuted into Yugoslavia to evaluate different resistance groups
  • Project Larson; late 1943
  • Kidnap Italian rocket & missile specialists and bring them to the United States
  • Tried to convince physicists in Europe to leave & come to America; 1944

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Awarded the "Medal of Freedom" in 1945.

World War II

Later, he rejected the medal, refusing to accept it.

Moe Berg became a spy for the US Government in 1942.

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After he passed in 1972, his sister accepted it on his behalf.

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Moe's Background

Legacy

  • Born: March 2, 1902
  • Grew up in New York & New Jersey
  • Jewish
  • Began playing baseball at age 7

Berg had footage of Tokyo Bay that he shot from the top of a hospital on a tour of Japan with other All-Stars

  • played under the false name Runt Wolfe

National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

  • Attended Princeton University & Columbia University

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Baseball Reliquary's shrine of the Eternals

Film helped Colonel Jimmy Doolittle plan raid.

Only baseball card in the CIA Headquarters

Minneapolis Millers

Moe Berg

Toledo Mud Hens

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Reading Keystones

I902 - 1972

signed his first major league contract for $5,000 in 1923 with the

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Brooklyn Robins

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

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Washington Senators

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Boston Red Sox

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