Serafino Romualdi

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Serafino Romualdi was an Italian socialist exile who emigrated to the United States following the fascist seizure of power.[1]

He became a member of staff in David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in New York.[2]

In 1942, he was sent to South America by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to organise a congress of anti-fascist exiles in Uruguay. On his return, he was recommended to the OSS by Adolf Berle.[2]

In 1943, he returned to the US to work in the labor division of the coordinators office, headed by John Herling.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Based at the apartment of his brother-in-law, the Italian socialist leader Giuseppe Lupis, attempted to strengthen the socialists against the communists, a policy for which his authority from the OSS was doubtful. He passed funds from the Italian-American Labour Council to socialist trade unionists who were willing to split from the communist-led labour federation.[3]

In October 1944, Scamporino sent Romualdi to the Franco-Swiss border, supposedly to deliver arms, but in reality on a mission, "planned outside normal channels" to smuggle the socialist writer Ignazio Silone into Italy to combat communist influence.[3]

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Notes

  1. Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.10.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.98.