Office of Strategic Services
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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 Participants
40 of the 58 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Stewart Alsop | |
| Ulius Amoss | |
| James Jesus Angleton | "The dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world", according to Richard Helms, DCI. |
| Tracy Barnes | US Deep state actor involved in the Bay of Pigs |
| Louis Bloomfield | Canadian Zionist and spook tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy through the CIA front organization Permindex. |
| Thomas W. Braden | OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA |
| David Bruce | spooky US diplomat |
| Ivar Bryce | During World War II Bryce worked the British Security Coordination, where he created a very successful forged Nazi map of South America for propaganda purposes. |
| William Diebold | CFR economist |
| Allen Dulles | Dulles 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 Elkins | Close 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 Esterline | Deputy chief of the CIA Western Hemisphere division |
| Chadbourne Gilpatric | |
| Aline Griffith | US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s. |
| Paul Helliwell | CIA officer central in setting up the agency's involvement in drug trafficking. |
| Richard Helms | |
| E. Howard Hunt | A CIA officer and USDSO. Heavily involved in both the Watergate Coup and the assassination of JFK. |
| C. D. Jackson | OSS, US Deep sate operative, first Bilderberg |
| Kermit Roosevelt Jr | Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. CIA agent. |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | |
| Lyman Kirkpatrick | |
| Walter Levy | US spooky economist, headed the petroleum section of the Office of Strategic Services |
| Franklin Lindsay | Single Bilderberg SOE spook |
| William Macomber | US spook and diplomat. |
| John Magruder | After 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. |
| Francis Pickens Miller | |
| Hugh Montgomery (diplomat) | 63 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was one of the agency's greatest linguists. |
| Lawrence de Neufville | |
| George Olmsted | Military officer, spook and insurance executive. |
| Norman Holmes Pearson | WW2 Office of Strategic Services. Following the war he helped organize the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| Henry Lithgow Roberts | |
| Raymond Rocca | CIA counterintelligence officer and specialist on the Soviet Union |
| Serafino Romualdi | |
| Whitney Hart Shepardson | |
| John K. Singlaub | Founding member of the CIA, where he for more than half a century organized death squads and terrorist groups around the world, funded by drugs smuggling. |
| Hans Tofte | Danish born OSS and CIA irregular warfare and psychological operations expert, worked mostly in Asia. |
| Hugh Tovar | A spook involved in Vietnam and Indonesia |
| Harold Weisberg | |
| John Hay Whitney | Billionaire active investor, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1957-61 |
| Frank Wisner | US deep politician, and an architect of Operation Mockingbird. Reportedly killed himself. |
