Quote:The months of January and February of 1945 saw Allied aerial resupply reach its maximum point in preparation for the spring campaign, and the large cities of northern Italy were impatient for liberation. In order to better coordinate the clandestine movement in northern Italy, Lt. Emilio Daddario, assistant operations officer of SI Italy, was sent to Lugano, Switzerland, to help Allen Dulles to coordinate activities on the Italian frontier. Daddario established radio contact with Company D so his activities could better be coordinated with 15th Army Group plans.

To closely collaborate with other branches of the OSS, SI planned a series of joint operations with the Morale Operations Branch (MO), which was engaged in carrying out a psychological warfare program of disinformation among the German troops in Italy, and the reported results of this collaboration were excellent. A program of close collaboration between X-2 and SI was worked out with Jim Angleton, whose Counter Intelligence (CI) intelligence files benefited from the intelligence gleaned from our CLNAI sources and through a playback transmitter that had fallen into the hands of the Abwehr and which we had code-named MARIA GIOVANNA.*

Daddario moved into Italy and captured Marshall Graziani and a number of outstanding Fascist personalities.

The Secrets War The Office of Strategic Services in World War II by George C. Chalou; Pages 191-92.

Quote:Emilio Q. Daddario's career has spanned the fields of politics, law, and science. After obtaining his B.A. from Wesleyan University, he graduated from the University of Connecticut Law School and practiced law. He put his career on hold to fight in World War II, but upon returning home he became mayor and, then, judge in Middleton, Connecticut. He returned to active duty during the Korean conflict, resumed the practice of law, and served five consecutive terms in Congress. He has been director of the Office of Technology Assessment, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-chair of the American Bar Association.
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Quote:In Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of OSS (Random House, New York, 1946) Corey Ford and Alistair MacBain describe his exploit. "[T]his one man task-force, Captain Emilio Q. Daddario of Boston, Mass., maneuvered single-handed the surrender of the Nazi S.S. Headquarters . . . arranged with the German General in command at Como to confine his troops to the barracks . . .[and] made a prisoner of Marshal Graziani, Chief of the Italian Facist Army.

Captain Daddario had orders from Allied Headquarters to bring Graziani back alive. Somehow he managed to spirit his prized prisoner out of Milan. Several times the OSS party was under fire from excited Italian partisans; the car which was assigned to the Marshal was dynamited and an OSS lieutenant badly wounded, but Graziani was delivered intact." Captain Daddario was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit and the Italian Medaglio d'Argento.

Emilio Q. Daddario, President-Elect (Science Journal, April 16, 1976)

Quote:The Daddarios: From Intelligence to Hollywood

Today the names of Alexandra and Matthew Daddario appear in the titles of Hollywood's greatest cinematic successes. Few, however, associate their name with a story that has united Abruzzo to America since the end of the 19th century. That of the Daddarios is in fact an important name in American history even if it has lost its originality of roots, and was born in the mountains of Abruzzo.

On Ellis Island the D'Addarios lost, despite themselves, the apostrophe becoming Daddario for the Americans, and settled in Newton, Massachusetts. On September 24, 1918, the fourth of their six children was born there, Emilio Quincy Daddario, who after attending public schools in Boston and the Tilton Academy in Newton, graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) in 1939.

Emilio then attended the Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941, to then obtain his specialization at the University of Connecticut in 1942. In his youth Emilio distinguished himself not only for his excellent results in his studies, but also for his sporting performances, becoming one of the protagonists of university sport. While attending Wesleyan University, he was a star athlete and captained the football team in 1938 to receive the Major Valuable Player Award (better known as the MVP award) for both football and baseball.

emilio daddario at wesleyanThe war did not leave the son of the Ofena immigrants indifferent. Married to Berenice Carbo in 1940, Emilio in fact enlisted, like many others, in February 1943 and was immediately contacted by Max Biagio Corvo, the very young head of operations in Italy of the Oss, originally from Melilli, who already from the end of 1942 planned, with a detailed intelligence plan, the occupation of Sicily in the summer of 1943 and the subsequent total liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist yoke.

Corvo, who knew Daddario from having lived in the same city (Middletown) decided he wanted to have the young American football star, acclaimed champion in the Wesleyan University team, on his "intelligence" team. Emilio also knew perfectly different languages and integrated well with the Sicilians, consolidating a lifelong friendship with Corvo himself.

Joined the secret service with the code name of Mim (774 the identification number), Emilio participated in all phases of the Italian campaign. Arrived in Palermo in December 1943, he spent a short time in the offices of the Sicilian OSS before being transferred to the new operational command of Brindisi with the position of Corvo's deputy and the rank of captain. In April 1945, when the fate of the Republic of Salò was now sealed, Captain Daddario was in Switzerland under the direct dependency of Allen Dulles, director of the OSS for Europe and future head of the CIA.

However, he was recalled to Italy by Corvo for a task of the utmost delicacy: the capture of Mussolini and some ministers of the Social Republic of Salò fleeing to the Piedmontese mountains. The Italian-American officer arrived in Italy without revealing his true purpose and tried to guess the moves of the partisans who used the best strategy to divert any clues that could lead the Allies to track down the Duce. In the terrible last days of the Fascist era, Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce.

However, Daddario redeemed himself immediately afterwards, subtracting the generals of the RRS Rodolfo Graziani, Ruggero Bonomi and Rosario Sorrentino from the justice of the partisans. Graziani would later be imprisoned in a prison camp in Algiers and testify to Daddario's action, thanking him for saving his life.

Awarded the "Legion of Merit" and the American bronze star and the Italian silver medal, once back home Emilio Daddario resumed his profession as a lawyer and became a member of the Connecticut National Guard; served as mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1946-1948, 1946-1948; and judge of the Municipal Court of the same city until 1950 . In fact, in that year he returned to active duty again in the 43rd Division of the Connecticut National Guard to fight in Korea. Daddario worked as a major and at the end of the conflict was sent to Japan, before returning home definitively in 1952. The Italian-American decided to continue his political commitment and was elected deputy (among the ranks of the Democrats) in 1958, working in that capacity until 1971.


Richard (married to Christina) prosecutor and former head of the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism unit, is the father of Alexandra Anna, Matthew and Catherine, with the first two children destined to become Hollywood stars.


Born in New York on March 16, 1986, Alexandra decided to become an actress after seeing the Broadway musical "Les Miserables". Keeping faith with the family tradition, she successfully practiced various sports, including swimming and she studied the piano for years, attending the prestigious Brearley girls' high school in New York . . It was precisely in the boarding school that she carried out her first theatrical activities, playing the role of Hortensio in "The Taming of the Shrew". In her second year of high school she decided to enroll in the Professional Children's School, designed for students engaged in the world of entertainment, then continuing her studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

After making her television debut at the age of twelve in a Barbie commercial, Alexandra began her film career in 2002 working in Jim Bernfield's short film Best Thanksgiving Ever, presented at the 15th Columbia University Film Festival.

Quote:If I were to count how many actors were/are intel and/or (deep) sibling connections to alphabet agencies, you wouldn't see me for a year.