MOE BERG.
MOE BERG. Moe Berg was a good-field-no-hit catcher in the major leagues in the twenties and thirties, playing for several teams, including the White Sox. He was a lawyer and a linguist and knew a great many things, as described in this article, which includes the following summary of his baseball career: “’When told that Berg spoke seven languages, Senators’ outfielder Dave Harris replied, “Yeah. I know, and he can’t hit in any of them.’” Moe Berg joined the OSS during World War II. One of his assignments was to parachute into Yugoslavia and evaluate the resistance groups. Berg reported that Tito headed the strongest resistance group. In the latter part of World War II, “news about [Werner] Heisenberg giving a lecture in Zurich, Switzerland reached the OSS, and Berg was assigned the task of attending the lecture and determining ‘if anything Heisenberg said convinced him the Germans were close to a bomb.’ If Berg came to the conclusion that the Germans were close, he had orders to shoot Heisenberg.” Berg determined that there was no need to shoot Heisenberg.