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MA: And so your husband then was recruited by the OSS?

CY: Uh-huh.

MA: Was that shortly after you were married?

CY: Yes, soon after I was married.

MA: And do you remember anything about how he was recruited or how he ended up in the OSS?

CY: Well, the recruiters, I think, came to camp to interview these men, and I don't know who was... one of them, I think, was my husband, and a friend of ours, Masuji Fuji, I think he was one of them. Because she, when the interviewer from University of Maine came, my husband said -- "Who were your friends in OSS?" And my husband said, "I didn't have any friends." I talked to my husband, thought, "Oh, my goodness, my husband is so abrupt." [Laughs] That's what I thought. And so he didn't want to say who his friends were. So I said, after they left, I said, "Dad, you know Masuji Fuji. We go to Reno together," etcetera, etcetera. And he didn't say anything. He didn't argue very, back, argue with me too much anyway. And so I had no, I couldn't continue because he didn't say anything more. [Laughs] That was it. He didn't have, he claimed, told the interviewer he didn't have any friends, he didn't know anybody.

MA: And that was because he had signed something saying he wouldn't divulge any information about his experiences. So, so they came to recruit him in camp, and then he left eventually.

CY: He left very soon after our -- excuse me -- our marriage to, he went to Washington, D.C. And I didn't know exactly where he was, but I understand they were all gathered in Collinswood, Virginia, and that was their base.

MA: And so he moved to D.C., and you said that you actually moved.

CY: Yes, I went to work for the WRA.

MA: Did you know he was in D.C. at that time? Did you... I mean, you were, so you were together.

CY: Yes. I didn't go with him, but we went separately.

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