Many served in the armed forces, while others worked in intelligence ( for example, Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information ).

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager ( Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong ).

* The Strategic Technology Office ( STO ) mission is to focus on technologies that have a global theater-wide impact and that involve multiple Services.

In the latter stages of the war he was sent to the Pacific Far East to serve with the United States Office for Strategic Services.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

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

* 1902 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services figure ( d. 2004 )

* Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived former American government agency created in 2001, part of the Department of Defense and focused on psychological warfare

* OSI ( band ), an American progressive rock supergroup named after the former Office of Strategic Influence government agency

* Office of Strategic Influence ( album ), the 2003 debut album by the band OSI

* Office of Strategic Services, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency

( film ), a 1946 film about the Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II.

In 1943, the Office of Strategic Services set up operations in Istanbul.

Many members of the US Office of Strategic Services also were trained there.

* 2677th Office of Strategic Services Regiment

) The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II ( Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991 )

* Katz, Barry M. Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942 – 1945 ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989 )

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

The Office of Strategic Services: America ’ s First Intelligence Agency ( Washington, D. C .: Central Intelligence Agency, 2001 )

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

From 1950 onward, census forms were mailed to every address on record with the United States Post Office, including the Armed Services Postal System, in an effort to enhance completeness of the data collected.

All crossings ( ports of entry ) on the American side are secured by the U. S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations and on the Canadian side by the Canada Border Services Agency ; all areas between the American ports of entry and on the American side of the river are secured by the United States Border Patrol.

** GSA Office of Civil Rights, General Services Administration

** HHS Office for Civil Rights, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

Under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a data center was established to gather and index all published information on atomic transition probabilities.

Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.

Eventually responsibility for demographic inquiries in the Congo was transferred to the demographic division of the Central Statistical Office.

Capt. A. B. Jenks of the Office of Harbor Defense was very worried.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

As I was walking back to the Police Station, which was in the same building with the City Hall and Post Office, I saw Mrs. Tim Williams sneaking into the back of my car.

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

Since Congress was in recess, Johnson thought he could suspend Stanton without Senate approval and avoid violating the Tenure of Office Act.

The War Office was " interested to know what Hitler's own astrologers would be telling him from week to week ".

In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

As trading became tighter in the petroleum market, and Aston Martin was requiring more time and money, Gauntlett agreed to sell Hays / Pace to the Kuwait Investment Office in September 1983.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

In 1964, the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).