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The '''Office of Strategic Services''' was an [[intelligence agency]] set up during [[World War II]]. Its [[Head of the Office of Strategic Services|head]] [[William Donovan]] had been close to the [[British Security Coordination]] (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.182.</ref>
 
The '''Office of Strategic Services''' was an [[intelligence agency]] set up during [[World War II]]. Its [[Head of the Office of Strategic Services|head]] [[William Donovan]] had been close to the [[British Security Coordination]] (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.182.</ref>
  
President [[Harry Truman|Truman]] ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September [[1945]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.</ref> However, on 26 September, Donovan's Deputy, General [[John Magruder]] secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War [[John McCloy]] which preserved its operations as the [[Strategic Services Unit]], keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref>
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[[US President]] [[Harry Truman|Truman]] ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September [[1945]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.</ref> However, on 26 September, Donovan's Deputy, General [[John Magruder]] secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War [[John McCloy]] which preserved its operations as the [[Strategic Services Unit]], keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].<ref>Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.</ref>
 
 
 
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Revision as of 12:29, 28 December 2018

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Office of Strategic Services.jpeg
An OSS training film
SuccessorCentral Intelligence Agency
FormationJune 13, 1942
Extinction30 September 1945
LeaderHead of the Office of Strategic Services
Typeintelligence agency
Staff13,000
Interest ofOmer Becu, Jacob Esterline, Jacobus Oldenbroek
Membership• 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
• DeWitt Poole
• Ivar Bryce
• 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
• [[..|...]]
Precursor to the CIA.

The Office of Strategic Services was an intelligence agency set up during World War II. Its head William Donovan had been close to the British Security Coordination (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS.[1]

US President Truman ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945.[2] However, on 26 September, Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy which preserved its operations as the Strategic Services Unit, keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the Central Intelligence Agency.[3]

 

Known members

62 of the 296 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Stewart Alsop
Ulius Amoss
James Jesus Angleton"The dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world", according to Richard Helms, DCI.
Tracy BarnesUS Deep state actor involved in the Bay of Pigs
Louis BloomfieldCanadian Zionist and spook tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy through the CIA front organization Permindex.
Thomas W. BradenOSS, Georgetown Set, CIA
David Brucespooky US diplomat
Ivar BryceDuring World War II Bryce worked the British Security Coordination, where he created a very successful forged Nazi map of South America for propaganda purposes.
James Burnham"The first neoconservative", spooky propagandist philosopher
Ray ClineSenior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
William Sloane Coffin
William ColbyCIA boss who maybe became too loose-mouthed, died in suspicious circumstances
Lucien Conein
Philip CroweUS OSS spook and diplomat
Federico Umberto D'AmatoItalian spook who claimed to have founded the Club de Berne. In 2020, indicated him as one of the 4 principal organizers or financiers of the 1980 Bologna train station massacre.
William DieboldCFR economist
William J. Donovan
Gerry Droller
Allen DullesDulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter.
Michael ElkinsClose connections to Israeli intelligence operations. Worked for the BBC,CBS and Newsweek. The first journalist to report at the beginning of the Six-Day War, and a speaker at the 1979 JCIT.
Jacob EsterlineDeputy chief of the CIA Western Hemisphere division
Chadbourne GilpatricOSS in WW2, then joined the Rockefeller Foundation
Arthur Goldberg
Aline GriffithUS born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s.
Paul HelliwellCIA officer central in setting up the agency's involvement in drug trafficking.
Richard Helms
E. Howard HuntA CIA officer and USDSO. Heavily involved in both the Watergate Coup and the assassination of JFK.
C. D. JacksonOSS, US Deep sate operative, first Bilderberg
Albert JolisDiamond dealer with Oppenheimers, OSS and CIA ties.
Kermit Roosevelt JrGrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. CIA agent.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Lyman KirkpatrickCIA Inspector General who wrote report was highly critical of Allan Dulles. Kirkpatrick would later write that he believed the report cost him "a fighting chance at the directorship."
Edward Lansdale
Duncan Chaplin LeeUS soviet spook
Walter LevyUS spooky economist, headed the petroleum section of the Office of Strategic Services
Franklin LindsaySingle Bilderberg SOE spook
William MacomberUS spook and diplomat.
John MagruderAfter the WW2 Office of Strategic Services was disbanded in 1945, core elements of it were maintained in the new Strategic Services Unit (SSU) led by Magruder, a link to the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947.
Margaret MeadAmerican anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. Close ties to the CIA, including covering up the use of anthropologists as spooks. Husband involved in MK-Ultra program. Later involved in the introduction the agendas "overpopulation" and "global warming".
Paul MellonUS lawyer who flew on Epstein's plane
Francis Pickens MillerHawkish spook
Hugh Montgomery (diplomat)63 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was one of the agency's greatest linguists.
Henry S. Morgan
Lawrence de Neufville
Franz Neumann
George OlmstedMilitary officer, spook and insurance executive.
Norman Holmes PearsonWW2 Office of Strategic Services. Following the war he helped organize the Central Intelligence Agency.
Robert PickusSpooky "peace activist" who proposed that in "the current political climate, war is essential for justice to prevail".
Henry Lithgow RobertsOfficer in the Office of Strategic Services during WW2 who became leading Eastern Europe scholar while keeping up his intelligence activities.
Raymond RoccaCIA counterintelligence officer and specialist on the Soviet Union
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References

  1. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.182.
  2. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.
  3. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.