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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. | ||
| − | OSS head [[William Donovan]] had been close to [[British Security | + | 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. <ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.</ref> |
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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]
People
- William Donovan - head
John Magruder | Allen Dulles | Frank Wisner | David Bruce | 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 | 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 | Serafino Romualdi
Notes
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.
