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 *[[Lester Armour]] - Chief of London Mission<ref name="OSS16">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.16.</ref>
 *[[Allen Dulles]] - Chief of Mission in Switzerland<ref name="OSS9">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.9.</ref>
-[[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 (OSS)|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]]
+[[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 (OSS)|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]]
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 ==External Resources==
-*[http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/226.html#226.7 Records of the Office of Strategic Services [OSS]], US National Archives
+*[http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/226.html#226.7 Records of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)], US National Archives.
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	The [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) was a US intelligence agency operating during the Second World War.		The [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) was a US intelligence agency operating during the Second World War.

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

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 *[[Lester Armour]] - Chief of London Mission<ref name="OSS16">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.16.</ref>
 *[[Allen Dulles]] - Chief of Mission in Switzerland<ref name="OSS9">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.9.</ref>
-[[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 (OSS)|John Hemingway]] | [[Kenneth Hinks]] | [[Philip Horton]] | [[H. Stuart Hughes]] | [[John C. Hughes]] | [[E. Howard Hunt]] | [[Ellery Huntington, Jr]] | [[James Jiminez]] | [[Michael Jiminez]] | [[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]]
+[[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 (OSS)|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]]
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 *[[Leon Dostert]] - French SI desk in Washington<ref name="OSS59">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.59.</ref>
 *[[Ricardo Mazzerini]] SI Italian desk in London<ref name="OSS84">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.84.</ref>
-[[Earl Brennan]]<ref name="OSS84">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.84.</ref>
+*[[Earl Brennan]]<ref name="OSS84">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.84.</ref>
 ===Morale Operations Branch (MO)===

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	President [[Harry Truman\|Truman]] ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945.<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.</ref> 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]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref>		President [[Harry Truman\|Truman]] ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945.<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.</ref> 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]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref>
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	==Structure and Personnel==		==Structure and Personnel==

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 ===Special Operations Branch (SO)===
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 ===Morale Operations Branch (MO)===
 '''Main Page''': [[OSS Morale Operations Branch]]
 *[[Abraham Polonsky]]<ref name="OSS13">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.13.</ref>
 ===Foreign Nationalities Branch===
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 *[[James Murphy (OSS)|James Murphy]] - head of Counterintelligence<ref name="OSS12">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.12.</ref>
 *[[David Bruce]] - Chief of London Mission<ref name="OSS9">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.9.</ref>
 *[[Allen Dulles]] - Chief of Mission in Switzerland<ref name="OSS9">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.9.</ref>
-[[John Magruder]] | [[Frank Wisner]] |  | [[Whitney Hart Shepardson]] | [[Thomas W. Braden]] | [[Richard Helms]] | [[William Casey]] | [[Royall Tyler]] | [[Kermit Roosevelt]] | [[Tracy Barnes]] | [[Arthur Schlesinger]] | [[Stewart Alsop]] | [[Charles B. Fahs]] | [[Chadbourne Gilpatric]] | [[Norman Holmes Pearson]] | [[James Angleton]] | [[Richard Ellman]] | [[John Hay Whitney]] | [[DeWitt Poole]] | [[Ivar Bryce]] | [[John Ford]] | [[E. Howard Hunt]] | [[Philip Horton]] | [[Ernest Hemingway]] | [[Francis Pickens Miller]] | [[Alfred Parry]] | [[Eugene Fodor]] | [[Marcello Girosi]] | [[Ilia Tolstoy]] | [[Julia McWilliams Child]] | [[Raymond Guest]] | [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] | [[John Hemingway (OSS)|John Hemingway]] | [[Serafino Romualdi]] | [[Louis Ream]] | [[Atherton Richards]] | [[James Grafton Rogers]] | [[Henry Murray]] | [[H. Stuart Hughes]] | [[Arthur Goldberg]] | [[Gerhard Van Arkel]]
+[[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 (OSS)|John Hemingway]] | [[Kenneth Hinks]] | [[Philip Horton]] | [[H. Stuart Hughes]] | [[John C. Hughes]] | [[E. Howard Hunt]] | [[Ellery Huntington, Jr]] | [[James Jiminez]] | [[Michael Jiminez]] | [[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==