Burke was one of the members of the "MacGregor Mission" led by Lt. John M. Shaheen consisting of Burke, Henry Ringling North (brother of circus president John Ringling North[4]) and Marcello Girosi, a former New York businessman who had a brother Massimo who was an Italian admiral.
Admiral Minisini was in the Engineering section of the Italian Navy and was directing the use of a magnetic firing device for torpedoes.
30 Commando unit, whose creation was initially proposed by James Bond author Ian Fleming, on the night of 17/18 September 1943 along with his wife and 13 pieces of luggage.
[8] Following the Italian campaign, Burke was parachuted into the Vosges region of France to arm and organize the French Resistance.
During World War II, Michael Burke was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, and the French Médaille de la Résistance.
agent Andreas Diamond met at Lang's home to discuss various methods of killing someone with your bare hands, and were seen rolling around the floor to design a fight scene with O.S.S.
Burke was allowed to use the cover of working for Warner Brothers whilst he was doing various scouting and liaison missions in Europe.
[15] Using his experience with French Resistance groups in the War, Burke was given the mission to "Recruit a limited number of refugees, train them as agents and place them clandestinely back on their native soil.
[16] In 1949 he replaced Robert Low as the American officer in charge of setting up paramilitary and political operations in Albania.
[19] Burke served as an intelligence and special operations adviser to John J. McCloy, the United States High Commissioner in Germany, from 1951 to 1954.
Though new to the circus world Burke found himself battling cheating ushers [20] and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamster Union.
[27] In 1972, CBS head William S. Paley told Burke to either sell the Yankees or buy them himself which he did with George Steinbrenner in January 1973.