Office of Strategic Services

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OSS head William Donovan

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a US intelligence agency operating during the Second World War.

OSS head William Donovan had been close to British Security Coordination (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many other BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS. [1]

President Truman ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945.[2] However, on 26 September, Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy which preserved its operations as the Strategic Services Unit, keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the Central Intelligence Agency.[3]

Structure and Personnel

Research and Analysis Branch (R&A)

Main Page: OSS Research and Analysis Branch

Special Operations Branch (SO)

Secret Intelligence Branch (SI)

Morale Operations Branch (MO)

Main Page: OSS Morale Operations Branch

Foreign Nationalities Branch

X-2 Branch

Miscellaneous officers

Stewart Alsop | Victor Anfuso | James Angleton | J.H. Angleton | Alexander Barmine | Tracy Barnes | Thomas Beale | André Bourgoin | Beverly Bowie | Thomas W. Braden | Gordon Browne | Ivar Bryce | Edward Buxton | Clifton C. Carter | William Casey | Thomas Cassady | Douglass Cater | Julia McWilliams Child | Carleton Coon | Max Corvo | John Croze | Ralph de Toledano | C. Douglas Dillon | Donald Downes | Hilaire du Berrier | William Eddy | Richard Ellman | Charles B. Fahs | Irving Fajans | Milton Felsen | Eugene Fodor | John Ford | John Gardner | George Garrett | Chadbourne Gilpatric | Marcello Girosi | Arthur Goldberg | M. Preston Goodfellow | Irving Goff | Raymond Guest | Murray Gurfein | Joe Haskell | John Haskell | Sterling Hayden| August Heckscher | Richard Helms | Ernest Hemingway | John Hemingway | Kenneth Hinks | Philip Horton | H. Stuart Hughes | John C. Hughes | E. Howard Hunt | Ellery Huntington, Jr | James Jiminez | Michael Jiminez | Albert Jolis | Carl Kaysen | Vincent Lassowski | Russell Livermore | John Magruder | Kenneth Mann | Edwin Martin | Turner McBaine | Clark McGregor | Francis Pickens Miller | Henry Morgan | Junius Morgan | William Morgan | Henry Murray | Henry Ringling North | Serge Obolensky | Alfred Parry | Norman Holmes Pearson | Warwick Potter | Louis Ream | Atherton Richards | James Grafton Rogers | Serafino Romualdi | Kermit Roosevelt | Leland Rounds | Jerry Sage | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | John Sawyer | Vincent Scamporino Arthur Schlesinger | Frank Schoonmaker | John Shaheen | Nicol Smith | Donald Steele | Edmond Taylor | H. Gregory Thomas | Ilia Tolstoy | Peter Tompkins | Royall Tyler | Gerhard Van Arkel | William Vanderbilt | John Whitaker | George White | John Hay Whitney | Garland Williams | Frank Wisner | Milton Wolff

External Resources

Notes

  1. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.182.
  2. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.
  3. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
  4. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.27.
  5. 5.0 5.1 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.15.
  6. 6.0 6.1 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.54.
  7. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.59.
  8. 8.0 8.1 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.84.
  9. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.13.
  10. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.25.
  11. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.12.
  12. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.53.
  13. 13.0 13.1 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.9.
  14. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.16.