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'''Peter Tompkins ''' (April 19, 1919 in [[Athens, Georgia]] - January 23, 2007) was an [[United States|American]] journalist, [[World War II]] [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) spy in Rome, and best-selling [[occult]] author.
He was war correspondent for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' and [[CBS]] during [[World War II]]. In 1943 he was recruited by the OSS and utilized as an [[undercover agent]] in [[Italy]] in 1944.<ref name="Smith1972">{{cite book|author=Richard Harris Smith|title=OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0hVnAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02023-8|pages=86–87}}</ref> In 1962 he published his diary, titled ''A Spy in Rome'' ([[New York City|New York]]: [[Simon & Schuster]]).
His best-known books are ''[[The Secret Life of Plants]]'' (1973), ''[[Secrets of the Great Pyramid]]'' (1972; paperback reprint, 1997), and ''[[Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids]]'' (1976).
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