Empire and HonorBy: W. E. B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV Series: Honor Bound October 1945. The war is over. The OSS has been disbanded. But for Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, the fight goes on In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with Reinhard Gehlen, head of German intelligences Soviet section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence on the Soviets and their spies within the U. S. atomic bomb program,