St. Bartholomä Church on the Koenigssee, November 1961 "FBI trip" to southern Germany. My Dad was FBI 1946-1953. It was his boyhood dream — to be a pilot and to be in the FBI. He completed his legal degree in Baltimore before and during the war, then enlisted and went to pilot training school (some of his instructor's remarks are a hoot — 'this guy will never fly, he's a total idiot') but he did make it and served in England from Jan 1945 to Sept. 1945 when he was mustered out. Got an Oak Leaf Cluster. etc. But after that, it was on to the FBI. He married Mom in October 1945 and their first assignment was to Albany, where according to Dad many years later, he mostly chased draft dodgers... Anyway, when my brother was born in 1953, my mother put her foot down and told him it was time to "grow up" and get a real job that didn't require packing heat when he went to work. So fortunately for all of us, he was able to go to State. Then after 1953 he joined the "Ex-FBI Agents Association" (still in existence today). They had a monthly publication called the Grapevine. The FBI was still a fairly small organization then, and they all tended to know one another, and the Grapevine was a way to stay in touch , like a college alumni mag, I guess. In Frankfurt, there was a very active "chapter" of the ex-FBI guys....and they organized at least 1 trip we went on — skiing in Garmisch, and possibly the trip to Berchtesgaden for Thanksgiving 1961 was ex-FBI too.