The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by — among others — the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II ; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

Wilber served as a United States intelligence officer with the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), and was an active participant in the power struggles of nations, especially during the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in Iran after World War II.

In addition to Slovak forces, the combatants included various other groups from escaped French prisoners of war to Soviet partisans and Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) and Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) operatives.

In addition to Soviet aid, United States B-17 Flying Fortress bombers landed at Tri Duby airfield on October 7, 1944 and brought supplies and OSS agents.

Bernstein is supposed to have functioned as the contact between Soviet Military Intelligence ( GRU ) and Philip Keeney of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and his wife, Mary Jane Keeney of the Board of Economic Warfare and later the United Nations.

He was charged with providing the Soviet Union with secret OSS documents in World War II and photographs of a U. S. nuclear testing site in 1950.

Lee is identified in Venona as the Soviet double agent operating inside OSS under the cover name " Koch ," making him the most senior alleged source the Soviet Union ever had inside American intelligence.

While an officer, according to Soviet courier Elizabeth Bentley, Lee — reportedly a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — covertly furnished her with information on “ anti-Soviet work by OSS ” and other topics of interest to Moscow, which was technically an ally ( in Europe ) following the collapse of the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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.

As the Germans were retreating from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Bentley reported Lee as identifying groups working with the OSS to keep Soviet troops out of their countries.

Lee, a former Rhodes scholar who attended Oxford University with fellow OSS staffer Donald Niven Wheeler ( identified in Venona as the Soviet agent operating in OSS under cover name " Izra "), repeatedly denied Bentley's allegations, under oath, but acknowledged he and his wife knew Bentley as a family friend ( albeit under an assumed name ) and that he had met her several times while an OSS officer in various locations, as well as with Mary Price ( identified in Venona as the Soviet agent operating in the office of columnist Walter Lippmann under the code names " Dir " and " probably " " Arena "), and veteran NKVD rezident Jacob Golos, identified in Venona as Zvuk (" Sound ").

According to the Moynihan Commission, " It would ... appear from the VENONA messages that Duncan Chaplin Lee, Special Assistant to OSS Director William J. Donovan, was a Soviet agent.

Wheeler is alleged to have passed these reports as well as handwritten and typewritten material of cable reports from the State Department and the OSS to Soviet intelligence.

Halperin also distorted OSS reports with false information in order to reflect the views of Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of the United States.

In 1945, defecting Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley told agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) that from 1942 to 1944, when he was an official of the OSS, Haperin delivered " to MARY PRICE and later to myself mimeographed bulletins and reports prepared by OSS on a variety of topics and also supplied excerpts from State Department cables to which he evidently had access.

Mins worked for the OSS from 1942 to late 1943, and worked mostly on a survey of strategic minerals and oil reserves in Asia and the Soviet Union.

Often heard arguments against OSS are: the API is practically impossible to virtualize, it lacks support for modern audio features such as timer-based scheduling or proper surround sound support, inability of its developers to work with the Linux kernel community, lack of integration with modern kernel features such as the device model, too low-level interface, as well as general rejection of its design with moving a lot of signal processing code into the kernel.

Open-source software ( OSS ) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under an open-source license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.

In OSS development, the participants, who are mostly volunteers, are distributed among different geographic regions, so there is need for tools to aid participants to collaborate in source code development.

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

Burroughs was not the first manufacturer to distribute source code and indeed was a late entry to electronic computing ( compared to its traditional rivals NCR, IBM, and Univac ) but the situation outlined in the previous paragraph presages the current computing culture where OSS dominates.

In 1998, Tenney was identified in the Venona project transcripts as code name " Muse ", based on her transfer from the dismantled OSS to the Department of State.

In OSS development the participants, who are mostly volunteers, are distributed amongst different geographic regions so there is need for tools to aid participants to collaborate in the development of source code.

Concurrent Versions System ( CVS ) is a prominent example of a source code collaboration tool being used in OSS projects.

Wheeler is alleged to have provided information on the organization and policies of British intelligence services and furnished memoranda prepared by the Foreign Nationalities Branch of OSS on material relating to the particular racial groups and activities within the United States.

Dr. Langer used speeches, Hitler's book Mein Kampf, interviews with people who had known Hitler, and some four hundred published works to complete his wartime report, which was eventually declassified by OSS and published by Langer ( along with certain collateral material ) as The Mind of Adolf Hitler in 1972.

Through this process information about the Nazi regime made its way to Macfarland and the OSS in Istanbul and eventually to Washington.

While the OSS " Dogwood-chain " produced a lot of information, its reliability was increasingly questioned by British intelligence.

Planting phony information into the OSS was intended to misdirect the resources of the Allies.

OSS specialized in special operations, dropping operatives behind enemy lines to engage in organized guerrilla warfare as well as to gather information on such things as enemy resources and troop movements.

Nele hated the Nazis and had been supplying information to the British and the American OSS.

Fritz Kolbe, a German diplomat and courier based in Berlin who had become an American spy after a meeting in Bern, Switzerland with the OSS, also provided information about ' Cicero '.

He provided 68 pages of information on Hitler alone, including personal details of Hitler's private life, and he helped Professor Henry Murray, the Director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer and other experts to create a report for the OSS, in 1943, designated the " Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler ".

During the War, Kersten also provided information to the OSS ( predecessor of the CIA ).

In 1942 Robert Dexter, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, recruited Noel Field to pass on information to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

This information included a considerable quantity of data on activities of OSS personnel in virtually all sections and all countries around the world.

* Dual Licensing information from OSS Watch

His work for the OSS involved research on Nazi Germany and denazification.

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.

OSS 1st Lieutenant George Musulin behind enemy lines in German-occupied Serbia, as Chetnik, during his first mission on November 1943.

After victory in Europe in May 1945, the OSS was better able to concentrate on operations in Japan.

The Facilities of the Catalina Island Marine Institute at Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, Calif., are composed ( in part ) of a former OSS survival training camp.

The names of all OSS personnel and documents of their OSS service, previously a closely guarded secret, were released by the US National Archives on August 14, 2008.

* The 1957 book You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Wolcott Hall is a witty look at Hall's experiences with the OSS.

* National Park Service Report on OSS Training Facilities

" The OSS was also focused on the battle for hearts and minds during wartime ; " the very practice of simple sabotage by natives in enemy or occupied territory may make these individuals identify themselves actively with the United Nations War effort, and encourage them to assist openly in periods of Allied invasion and occupation.

Schwartz is an influential member of the F / OSS community, and has been named a " Perl Expert " and interviewed by numerous outlets-to discuss his views on Perl, Ruby, Smalltalk and other topics-including Dr. Dobbs Journal, Paul dot Com Security TV, The Command Line, PerlCast, FLOSS Weekly, ONLamp. com, and InfoQ.

OSS unsuccessfully tested a mescaline and scopolamine cocktail as a truth drug on two volunteers at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

He is best known for his work on Open source software / Free-libre software ( FLOSS or OSS / FS ) and Computer security.

Dewey arrived on September 4, 1945 in Saigon to head a seven-man OSS team " to represent American interests " and collect intelligence.

Because the airplane scheduled to fly Dewey out did not arrive on time at Tan Son Nhut International Airport, he returned for lunch at the villa that OSS had requisitioned in Saigon.

At the time of Helms ' arrival in London, talk about the recent German attack on the Ardennes front conceded that it had surprised everyone including the OSS.

Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including Lili Marleen, a favourite of soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

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.

In the game the player takes on the role of Lt. Mike Powell of the United States Army Rangers who works for the OSS.

He was able to alert the NKVD about all British intelligence on the Soviets — including what the American OSS had shared with the British about the Soviets.

Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, have chosen to disable OSS support in their kernels and ignore any bugs filed against OSS4 packages ( although OSS support may be re-enabled on Ubuntu ).

The Toymaker was imprisoned in cyberspace by the OSS, but he has since created " Game Over ", a virtual reality-based video game which he intends on using to escape cyberspace via players that reach Level 5, which is literally unwinnable.