[4] Although he remained officially assigned to the Navy, in October 1941, Ford's unit became part of the Office of Coordinator of Information, the OSS's predecessor.

The Field Photographic Branch was later tasked with documenting OSS wartime activities and producing training films for its personnel.

Introduced by Colonel Henson L. Robinson, chief of the OSS Division of Schools and Training, it begins by giving examples of agents discovered because of carelessness, and goes on to describe proper agent attitude, the importance of study, and methods of infiltrating enemy territory.

One notable performer is Victor Varconi, a Hungarian actor and silent film star, who played a Gestapo interrogator.

[8] Ford is easily identifiable as "J.P. Baldwin, Attorney at Law", the civilian cover of an OSS officer, puffing on a pipe and with a large handkerchief in his breast pocket.

[1] Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley said in an interview after the war that Ford "went through the whole monkey business" portraying an OSS agent under civilian cover, and that "he loved to do that.