Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

* In the Wolfenstein series of video games, the main character is a member of a fictional organisation called the OSA ( Office of Secret Actions ), which is inspired by the OSS.

Then in 1943 he received orders transferring him to the Secret Intelligence Branch of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) in Washington, D. C.

During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) — the predecessor to the CIA — where he became head of its Secret Intelligence Branch in Europe.

OSS: the Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency ( 2005 )

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency stated that: " Goldberg's file notes that as both a civilian and a member of the Army, he supervised a section in the Secret Intelligence Branch of OSS to maintain contact with labor groups and organizations regarded as potential resistance elements in enemy-occupied and enemy countries.

* Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II.

As an OSS officer, Lee served as head of the China section of SI, the Secret Intelligence Branch.

) Stalking the History of the Office of Strategic Services: An OSS Bibliography ( Boston: OSS / Donovan Press, 2000 )

Under his leadership the OSS would eventually conduct successful espionage and sabotage operations in Europe and parts of Asia, but continued to be kept out of South America as a result of Hoover's hostility to Donovan.

Writer Budd Schulberg, assigned by the US Navy to the OSS for intelligence work while attached to John Ford ’ s documentary unit, was ordered to arrest Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria, ostensibly to have her identify the faces of Nazi war criminals in German film footage captured by the Allied troops.

Having led the OSS during World War II, Donovan ’ s opinion was especially influential as to what kind of intelligence organization was needed as a bi-polar post-war world began to take shape.

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Depending on the server ’ s hardware, an OSS typically serves between two and eight OSTs, with each OST managing a single local disk filesystem.

In her August 1948 appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HCUA ), Bentley testified that Lee furnished her “ various types of information ,” which she then turned over to her Soviet handlers, including, in Bentley ’ s words, details on “ whether the OSS had spotted any of our people ” in that organization.

In Ian Dear ’ s book Sabotage and Subversion about British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) and United States Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) forces, Fairbairn is reported to have instructed SOE personnel in the double tap from 1944 to 1945 at the SOE training school directed by Fairbairn and Sykes near Arisaig in Scotland.

* The U. S. Army ’ s Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) which used the land exclusively for training spies and radio operators between 1942 and 1945

He went on to edit the OSS ‘ s monthly publication, European Political Report.

* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.

The other colonels were Henry Skillman Breckinridge, a Wall Street lawyer ; William Joseph Donovan ( a. k. a. " Wild Bill " Donovan, a hero of the First World War who would later head the OSS ).

In 1943, already a First Lieutenant at the age of 19, he joined the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and subsequently responded to a presidential call for volunteers for “ a dangerous and hazardous mission ” to be undertaken by an elite regimental-sized unit.

In 1943 he transferred to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

After the dissolution of the OSS in 1945, Marcuse was employed by the US Department of State as head of the Central European section, retiring after the death of his first wife in 1951.

Next, the National Security Act of 1947 established the United States's first permanent peacetime intelligence agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, which then took up the functions of the OSS.

Allen Dulles: Office of Strategic Services | OSS Swiss office in WWII ; Director of Central Intelligence | DCI in 1950s

Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ) at CIG, General Hoyt Vandenberg had played an effective role in reassembling the pieces of the old OSS.

Various departments of the OSS survived the agency's dissolution, however, and less than two years later the Central Intelligence Agency was founded, a realization of Donovan's hopes for a centralized peacetime intelligence agency.

His father, Miles Copeland, Jr., was a founding member of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), according to his 1989 biography and files released by the CIA in 2008.

Frankhouser warned LaRouche in 1977 that, according to his claimed CIA contact " Mr. Ed ", he was being considered for assassination, and introduced him to Mitchell WerBell III, a noted Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) operative, mercenary, operator of a counterterrorism school, accused drug trafficker, firearms engineer, and arms dealer who said he had an ongoing connection to the CIA.

During the Second World War Saarinen worked for Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) which later became the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

" This organisation was later established in 1947 as the Central Intelligence Agency ; a direct descendant of the OSS.

Field served Allen Dulles, then of the OSS and later Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) chief, as liaison to Communist resistance fighters when they were needed for OSS operations.

Her father was an intelligence officer and played a key role in the transition of the United States ' intelligence service from the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) to the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

In the late summer of 1941, Halperin went to work in the Office of the Coordinator of Information which later became the Research Division of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), itself the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The OSS was the predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

In early 1942 after the United States became involved in World War II, Marzani joined the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), the predecessor organization of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

The State Department received the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS which was renamed the Interim Research and Intelligence Service or ( IRIS ) and headed by U. S. Army Colonel Alfred McCormack.

The Secretary of War appointed Brigadier General John Magruder ( formerly Donovan's Deputy Director for Intelligence in OSS ) as the director to oversee the liquidation of the OSS, and more importantly, the preservation of the clandestine intelligence capability of the OSS.

In June 2002, the CIA commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Office of Strategic Services with a special publication of Studies in Intelligence and a new legacy exhibit on the OSS in the CIA Museum.

Perisco describes an Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) team ( code name LUXE ) leading Army Intelligence to a " Camp IV " on 29 April.

* The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political ( OSS, 2002 ).

* Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future ( OSS, 2003 ).

* The Smart Nation Act: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest ( OSS, 2006 ).

In February 1943, after being arrested, tortured and subsequently released by the Milice, the Vichy French paramilitary militia, Thomas joined a commando group in Grenoble, assisting the OSS, then began working for the U. S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps.