Photos | Philadelphia Main Line The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's once prestigious Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Lancaster Avenue (U.S. Route 30). This is a photo of La Ronda Estate (1929–2009) in Bryn Mawr, by architect Addison Mizner.(photo: Lower Merion Historical Society, William Morrison Collection) | |
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OSS in Asia 1945 | ||
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Harvard Law School Harvard Law school, Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
Richard S. Greenlee Passport photograph | ||
Williams College Williams College (Foggy Hall) | ||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 25 Mar 1928: Samuel A. Greenlee with son Richard crashes automobile into another vehicle. [Part 1] | ||
Newspapers.com - Daily News - 2 Mar 1965 - Page 261 | ||
Sub Rosa: The O.S.S. And American Espionage Sub Rosa by Stewart Alsop, Thomas Braden A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II. Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany’s Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden—both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years—became part of Wild Bill’s able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider’s history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA. In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler’s powerful Reich. As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden’s Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence. | ||
39 Greenacres Ave, Scarsdale, NY Greenlee family home | ||
Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Multiple Registrations Page 1 - Selective Service Registration Cards, World | ||
Richard S. Greenlee Passport photograph |
Name | Richard Samuel GREENLEE [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29] | |
Born | 16 Apr 1912 | Philadelphia, Delaware Co., PA [4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29] |
Gender | Male | |
Residence | 1920 | Allenhurst, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA [29] |
Relation to Head: Son; Residence Marital Status: Single | ||
25 Mar 1928: Samuel A. Greenlee with son Richard crashes automob | 25 Mar 1928 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Samuel A. Greenlee with son Richard crashes automobile | ||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 25 Mar 1928: Samuel A. Greenlee with son Richard crashes automobile into another vehicle. [Part 1] |
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Education | 1927–1930 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Around the years 1927-1930, Richard S. Greenlee attended St. Luke’s prep school which later merged with or became the Haverford School. | ||
Youth | 1912–1930 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Richard S. Greenlee lived an affluent childhood in a Philadelphia Main Line community. | ||
Philadelphia Main Line The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's once prestigious Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Lancaster Avenue (U.S. Route 30). This is a photo of La Ronda Estate (1929–2009) in Bryn Mawr, by architect Addison Mizner.(photo: Lower Merion Historical Society, William Morrison Collection) |
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Education | 1930–1934 | Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA |
Around 1930-1934, Richard S. Greenlee attended Williams College. | ||
Williams College Williams College (Foggy Hall) |
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Graduation | 1934 | Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA |
Religion | 1912–1936 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Richard S. Greenlee was raised Irish Catholic. | ||
Education | 1934–1937 | Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA |
Around 1934-1937, Richard S. Greenlee attended Harvard Law School. | ||
Harvard Law School Harvard Law school, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Address | 1940 | Scarsdale, Westchester Co., NY |
39 Greenacres Avenue | ||
39 Greenacres Ave, Scarsdale, NY Greenlee family home |
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Residence | 1940 | Washington, District of Columbia, USA [6] |
Relation to Head: Self; Relative Relation to Head: Wife | ||
Religion | 3 Sep 1940 | Roanoke County, Virginia, USA |
Richard S. Greenlee joins the Episcopalian church when he marries Virginia Twyman Greenlee. | ||
Residence | 1942 | Alexandria, Virginia, USA [20] |
Residence | 1943 | White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA |
Military | Abt 1 Jan 1945 | Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand |
Richard S. Greenlee was one of two OSS civilian officers infiltrated into Japanese occupied Bangkok in January 1945 to establish liaison with Luang Pradit, Regent of Thailand, who also headed a conspiracy of high government officers to unseat the Japanese. | ||
Physical Description | 2 Jan 1945 | Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand |
DAVID N GREENLEE: My father was sent behind Japanese lines in Siam (now Thailand). His exploits were written up in a couple of books. One was Sub Rosa, by Stewart Alsop. | ||
Sub Rosa: The O.S.S. And American Espionage Sub Rosa by Stewart Alsop, Thomas Braden A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II. Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany’s Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden—both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years—became part of Wild Bill’s able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider’s history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA. In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler’s powerful Reich. As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden’s Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence. |
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Physical Description | 3 Jan 1945 | Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand |
DAVID N. GREENLEE: My father never talked about what he did, but I understood from what I read that he was involved in setting up a guerrilla network from the King Regent’s palace in Bangkok. | ||
Physical Description | 4 Jan 1945 | Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand |
DAVID N. GREENLEE: The King Regent was nominally with the Japanese but actually with us. My father was commissioned as a major in the U.S. Army and awarded a bunch of U.S. and Siamese medals. | ||
Physical Description | 5 Jan 1945 | Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand |
DAVID N. GREENLEE: To me he was a heroic but sort of distant figure. He stayed involved with the intelligence community in some fashion until he died in 1965. For example, one of his law clients was Radio Free Europe, and he traveled frequently to Munich. | ||
Residence | 1950 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [28] |
Residence | Bef 1951 | Massachusetts [18] |
Arrival | 1955 | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [23, 24] |
Physical Description | 1 Jan 1955 | Scarsdale, Westchester, New York, USA |
My father loved being a lawyer, but in the decade after the war he tried to branch into other things. He got involved with an oil-drilling venture, for example, and we used to have a bottle of the oil that his company pulled up in our pantry. | ||
Physical Description | 2 Jan 1955 | Scarsdale, Westchester, New York, USA |
It was probably the only oil. He also bought and ran, with my grandmother’s help, a sports car outlet in White Plains called Shamrock Motors. After that he got into German cars through a law client who was the distributor for Mercedes Benz in Brazil. | ||
Physical Description | 3 Jan 1955 | Scarsdale, Westchester, New York, USA |
We had a 220 S and a 300 SL gull wing coup, today a real classic. | ||
Arrival | 8 Feb 1958 | New York, New York, USA [21] |
Arrival | 17 May 1958 | New York, New York, USA [22, 25] |
Arrival | 6 Oct 1959 | New York, New York, USA [26, 27] |
Residence | New York, USA [16] | |
_AMTID | 13225271069:1030:51595523 | |
_COLOR | 9 | |
_FSFTID | LBSX-3JH | |
_UID | 97244FA18BBB48398A2E2C0D265EF6A78489 | |
Buried | 1965 | Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America [4, 5] |
Died | 1 Mar 1965 | Scarsdale, Westchester Co., NY [4, 5, 16, 17, 18] |
Person ID | I503 | Extended-Family-Tree-v2 |
Last Modified | 1 Dec 2019 |
Father | Samuel Aloysius GREENLEE, b. 30 Aug 1880, Pennsylvania , d. 13 Apr 1950, Los Angeles (Age 69 years) | |
Mother | Gladys Sybil STEPHAN, b. 17 May 1891, Maryland , d. Oct 1973 (Age 82 years) | |
Family ID | F152 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | VIRGINIA POWERS TWYMAN, b. 31 Mar 1912, Appomattox, Virginia, USA , d. 5 Feb 2001, Littleton, Jefferson, Colorado, USA (Age 88 years) | |||||||||
Married | 2 Sep 1940 | Salem, Virginia, USA [19] | ||||||||
Married | 2 Sep 1940 | Roanoke, Virginia, USA [19] | ||||||||
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Last Modified | 4 Jan 2020 | |||||||||
Family ID | F160 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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