The Patek Philippe was given to the Dalai Lama by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943. However, it was not personally presented by FDR, but was presented to the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet, on behalf of President Roosevelt by two intelligence agents in the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS for short (the World War II U.S. intelligence service that was the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency). The two intelligence agents were Ilia Tolstoy (who the book describes as the "émigré grandson of the Russian novelist") and Brooke Dolan.
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