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The [[Strategic Services Unit]] was established after [[William Donovan]]'s Deputy, General [[John Magruder]] secured an order from the US Assistant Secretary of War [[John McCloy]] on 26 October 1945, which established the unit, preserving some of the war-time operations of the [[Office of Strategic Services]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref>
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The [[Strategic Services Unit]] was a residual US intelligence unit in existence in the years immediately after the Second World War.
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It was established after [[William Donovan]]'s Deputy, General [[John Magruder]] secured an order from the US Assistant Secretary of War [[John McCloy]] on 26 October 1945, which established the unit, preserving some of the war-time operations of the [[Office of Strategic Services]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref> The War Department absorbed the Secret Intelligence and Special Operations branches of the OSS, but Magruder resigned in February 1946, in protest at the continuing dismemberment of the unit.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
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*[[William Quinn]] - Director<ref name="OSS226n">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.226n.</ref>
 
*[[John A. Bross]] - head of SSU London.<ref name="aldrich83">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.</ref>
 
*[[John A. Bross]] - head of SSU London.<ref name="aldrich83">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.</ref>
 
*[[Winston M. Scott]] - head of X2 Unit.<ref name="aldrich83">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.</ref>
 
*[[Winston M. Scott]] - head of X2 Unit.<ref name="aldrich83">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.</ref>
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*[[Philip Horton]] - France.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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*[[Richard Helms]] - Germany.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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*[[Dana Durand]] - Germany
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*[[Peter Sichel]] - head of Secret Intelligence (SI) Germany.
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*[[Richard W. Cutler]] - Germany.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no3/html_files/Counterspy_9.htm Counterspy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World War II and the Cold War], ''Studies in Intelligence'', Vol 49 no 3, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.</ref>
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*[[Tom Polgar]]
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*[[Toivo Roswall]]
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*[[Sydney Lennington]]
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*[[Henry Hecksher]]<ref>Richard W. Cutler, ''Counter-Spy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World war Two and the Cold war'', Potomac Books Inc, 2004, p.124.</ref>
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*[[Alfred Ulmer]] - Austria.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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*[[James Angleton]] - Italy.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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*[[Albert Seitz]] - Balkans.<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
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*[[James Kellis]] - China<ref name="OSS364">R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 02:22, 5 February 2014

The Strategic Services Unit was a residual US intelligence unit in existence in the years immediately after the Second World War.

It was established after William Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from the US Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy on 26 October 1945, which established the unit, preserving some of the war-time operations of the Office of Strategic Services.[1] The War Department absorbed the Secret Intelligence and Special Operations branches of the OSS, but Magruder resigned in February 1946, in protest at the continuing dismemberment of the unit.[2]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.364.
  3. ↑ R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.226n.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.
  5. ↑ Counterspy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World War II and the Cold War, Studies in Intelligence, Vol 49 no 3, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
  6. ↑ Richard W. Cutler, Counter-Spy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World war Two and the Cold war, Potomac Books Inc, 2004, p.124.
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