War Department · Office of Strategic Services

FILE HSB-002  ·  SUBJECT: BALL, LUCILLE  ·  ORIGIN: LOS ANGELES FIELD OFFICE

CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET  →  FILE OPENS 09.08.26

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A Blackjack Harrigan File · No. 2_

Hiss Snap Burn.

In 1942, Lucille Ball reported enemy radio coming through her teeth.

Every agency in California dismissed it.

I drove out the same night.

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The record

The files. The civilians. The missions history buried.

The wrong people who saved the right history. The wrong résumé, the wrong training, and the one skill nobody else had. I kept the receipts.

Official history is tidy
because dead men are quiet.
Mine were not. — B.J. HARRIGAN / FILE LOG

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Hiss Snap Burn

Los Angeles, February 1942. Lucille Ball, RKO's "Queen of the B's," reported that the temporary fillings in her teeth were picking up enemy radio. Every agency in California dismissed the report. I drove out the same night.

She was right. And she was the only receiver in California the enemy didn't know existed.

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Hartford, June 1944. Eisenhower's Royal Quiet De Luxe was sabotaged days before the largest amphibious invasion in human history. Four trained OSS men died trying to fix it.

So I sent in a 4-F typewriter repairman. Because he was the only man who could.

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No. 1 CLICK CLACK BOOM
TYPEWRITER · D-DAY
OUT NOW →
07.28.26
No. 2 HISS SNAP BURN
RADIO · LUCILLE BALL '42
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09.08.26
No. 3 SNAP FLASH VANISH
MAGICIAN · CAIRO '42
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10.20.26
No. 4 CLASSIFIED CLASSIF
ANIMATOR · REDACTED
12.01.26
No. 5 CLASSIFIED CLASSIF
WITNESS · REDACTED
01.12.27
No. 6 CLASSIFIED CLASSIF
WRITER · REDACTED
02.23.27
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