Imagine parachuting into Nazi-occupied France with no guarantee that you'll survive the night.
Your mission: arm the Resistance, sabotage the enemy, gather intelligence, and rescue Allied airmen.
Now imagine doing it while sometimes posing as a fashion designer or a Vichy official—and then surrendering to more than 100 German soldiers because you've negotiated to save an entire French village.
This isn't the plot of a Hollywood spy thriller.
It's the story of Pierre "Peter" Ortiz, one of the most decorated members of America's Office of Strategic Services, the wartime organization that became a forerunner of the CIA and modern American special operations.
And one of the Allied airmen Ortiz rescued was the grandfather of today's guest.
Years later, journalist Katie Sanders discovered a 1949 recording of her grandfather describing his experience—and began a journey into the extraordinary life of a man she'd never heard of.
Today we're going behind the classified history of World War II, into occupied France, the French Resistance, the OSS, and the remarkable story of the man who saved her grandfather's life.
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