The US Army Special Operations Forces History Office (arsof-history.org) — official Army publication — documents OSS operations in Italy in detail. Key findings directly connecting to the 1933 Magenta craft retrieval timeline: OG TEAM SEWANEE: On April 13, 1945, OSS Operational Group team SEWANEE parachuted into the VALTELLINA VALLEY in northern Italy (Lombardy region) to join OG team SPOKANE. The Valtellina is in the Lombardy region — the same region as Magenta (also Lombardy, near Milan). SEWANEE’s mission included supporting the Italian resistance, clearing the valley of enemy troops, and protecting critical infrastructure. In the Mediterranean Theater, OSS OGs were controlled by the 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion — eventually 30 OSS OG teams were sent into occupied Italy starting September 1943. ALLEN DULLES — J-1/MJ-1: Allen Dulles, OSS SI station chief in Switzerland, maintained a network spanning northern Italy throughout 1944-45. On MAY 2, 1945, just days after SEWANEE’s Valtellina operation, Dulles personally arranged the SEPARATE SURRENDER OF GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY — “saving many Allied lives” per OSS records. Dulles was operating in Switzerland, less than 200 miles from Vergiate (where the Magenta craft was stored) throughout 1944-45. He was the most senior OSS intelligence officer with access to Vatican backchannel communications. After the war, Dulles became CIA Director (1953-1961) and is identified in our Module 5 hierarchy as J-1/MJ-1 — the Director of Central Intelligence who simultaneously ran the Jason Society and MJ-12. The same man who arranged the German surrender in Italy in May 1945, working from Switzerland with Vatican connections throughout 1944-45, became the head of the entire UAP control group. CROSS-REFERENCE: Mission Rossignol (National Archives RG 226 Entry 213) — OSS unit in Northern Italy July-September 1945 whose “true purpose was unknown.” Sources: arsof-history.org/articles/v3n4_oss_primer_page_1.html / NARA RG 226