dr. sumner jackson and said to dr. sumner jackson, i need to hide for a while. and the theory is that he was being hunted by the abwehr and the gestapo, that they were on to him, they knew he wasn't an ambulance driver, he was a spy. donald coster in 1981 was interviewed and he said only one person hid me in the basement of the american hospital in paris, dr. sumner jackson. and he also added that after a week false papers were found which allowed him to get to the south of france, then to spain, and then back to the u.s. he was one of several oss agents that were sent into north africa in 1942 before "operation torch" and went on to have a very long and distinguished career, oss in the second world war and then the cia after the war. in allowing coster to hide in the basement of the american hospital, sumner jackson took his first great risk of world war ii. avenue boche it's called, in the fall of 1940. the germans, in particular the most vicious and depraved and most cultured and malevolent of the germans who arrived in 1940, they chose the nicest place to li

dr. sumner jackson and said to dr. sumner jackson i need to hide for a while, and the fear is he was being hunted by the gestapo. they knew he wasn't an ambulance driver but a spy. he said only one person hid me in the basement of the paris hospital and it was dr. jackson. a week later false papers were found which allowed him to get to the south of france, to spain, and back to the u.s. he was one of the agents sent to north africa in 1942 before operation torch and went on to have a very long and distinguished career dur after the war and with the cia. in allowing coster to hide in the basement of the hospital sumner jackson took his very first risk at the hospital. avenue boche, fall 1940. the germans, the most vicious and depraved and most cultured and most mben everybody lent of the 1940s, they chose the most nice place to live. when they came to the avenue boche named after the great world war i french general, they literally chose the nicest residences, though the mansions earn eed by rocketchild family, reynold,

dr. sumner jackson. he added after a week false papers were found which allowed him to get to the south of france then to spain and then back to the u.s. he was one of several oss agents sent into north africa in 1942 before operation torch and went on the have a very long and distinguished career, oss in the second world war and then the cia after the war. in allowing coster to hide in the basement, sumner jackson took his first great risk of world war ii. avenue boche, in the fall of 1940, the germans, in particular the most vicious and depraved and most cultured and most malevolent of the germans who arrived in paris in 1940, they chose the nicest place to live. and i'm talking now about the ss and the gestapo. and when they came to avenue foch named after the great world war i french general they literally chose the nicest residences. so the mansions owned by the roth child family, renault, the car manufacturer, they all lived on avenue foch. by the fall of 1940s it was known by parisians as avenue b

dr. sumner jackson had a private medical practice. he made a lot of money because if you're a specialist in neurology you often have to solve -- urology you have to solve issues of venereal disease so a lot of businessman who came to paris and had a good time, they had number 11 avenue foch and his telephone number in their pocketbook just in case. importantly there was an exit to the left here on to rue tract here and then a front entrance, two entrances to a ground floor apartment where people came and went all the time to see dr. jackson in june of 1940, he send his son and toquette away, the nazis arrived in paris and dr. jackson was made the principal surgeon at the american hospital of paris. he didn't leave paris. four fifths of parisians fled paris before the germans arrived. hitler said on the 10th of may 1940 i will be in paris with my artists in