Office of Strategic Services

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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 Co-ordination (BSC), which had been instrumental in the Office's creation. Many other BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS. [1]


People

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

  1. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.