Walter A. O’Meara; Chief of Planning for OSS

Walter A. O’Meara, 92, chief of planning for the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA, during World War II and media director for Adlai E. Stevenson’s 1952 presidential campaign. O’Meara left an advertising career in 1950 to write novels and nonfiction. His best-known books include “Grand Portage,” a novel based on the life of fur trader Daniel Harmon, and “Minnesota Gothic,” a mystery novel about a family living in an old Victorian house. O’Meara’s first book, “The Trees Went Forth,” told the story of a young man spending a year in a northern Minnesota logging camp. Minnesota was the setting for roughly half of his 16 books. O’Meara attended the University of Minnesota before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. In Minneapolis on Friday.