Hilaire du Berrier

Hilaire du Berrier (1905 – October 12, 2002) was a pioneer American pilot, barnstormer, and spy.

Biography
He was born as Hal du Berrier in 1905 in Flasher, North Dakota.

He worked as a commercial artist in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 then joined a flying circus. He moved to France he took the name Hilaire. In Paris, he learned that Haile Selassie was hiring mercenary pilots to fight against the Italian occupation and in 1936 went to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 1936 to 1937 he joined the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Loyalists, but was arrested as a spy for the Fascists.

He worked for the Office of Strategic Services briefly, as an informant, in Shanghai after the Japanese surrender in 1945.

He worked as a journalist in Vietnam, and wrote a strongly anti-communist article in American Mercury in 1958.

He died on October 12, 2002 in Monaco.