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]
World War 2
In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralise enemy soldiers. 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. The branch opened a music department in New York City, used the services of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, and wrote and recorded black lyrics for 312 German and US songs as well as specially created pieces. A day’s typical 12-hour broadcast included news from the fronts, air-raid warnings and bomb damage reports, political commentaries, and German domestic news.[4][5]
A Document by Office of Strategic Services
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Second Front - The conflicts of interest in the anti-Hitler coalition | Book | 1995 | 20 July plot D-Day Operation Unthinkable Operation Rankin WW2 | The Soviet diplomat and historian Valentin Falin discusses the 1943 OSS secret plans to preempt the Soviet Union, including allying with Germany, with or without Hitler (pages 367-74 and 377-78, images added). To achieve this preemption now become the main content of the various contacts with the German opposition, which was intended to play the role of a "fifth column". |
Known members
66 of the 298 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Stewart Alsop | Spooky Georgetown Set journalist |
| Ulius Amoss | OSS member |
| 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. |
| Tom 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. |
| James Burnham | "The first neoconservative", spooky propagandist philosopher |
| Ray Cline | Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism |
| William Sloane Coffin | Spooky clergyman bonesman |
| William Colby | CIA boss who maybe became too loose-mouthed, died in suspicious circumstances |
| Lucien Conein | |
| Philip Crowe | US OSS spook and diplomat |
| Federico Umberto D'Amato | Italian 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 Diebold | CFR economist |
| William J. Donovan | OSS director 1942-1945 |
| Gerry Droller | |
| 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 | OSS in WW2, then joined the Rockefeller Foundation |
| Arthur Goldberg | US Ambassador to the United Nations in the 1960s |
| 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 | US deep state actor caught lying to the US congress |
| E. Howard Hunt | CIA officer and US DSO. Heavily involved in both the Watergate Coup and the assassination of JFK. |
| C. D. Jackson | OSS, US Deep sate operative, first Bilderberg |
| Albert Jolis | Diamond dealer with Oppenheimers, OSS and CIA ties. |
| Kermit Roosevelt Jr | Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. CIA agent. |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | In the Office of Strategic Services from 1943-1945. |
| Milton Katz | Harvard University professor. OSS. Senior administrator of the Marshall Plan from 1948 to 1951. Attended the 1962 Bilderberg |
| Lyman Kirkpatrick | CIA 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 | Spooky soldier possibly involved in the JFK assassination |
| Duncan Chaplin Lee | US soviet spook |
| Walter Levy | US spooky economist, headed the petroleum section of the Office of Strategic Services |
| Franklin Lindsay | Single Bilderberg spook, OSS, Office of Policy Coordination, Marshall Plan, Ford Foundation... |
| 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. |
| Edward Mason | Spooky US economist specializing in Industrial Organization. Organized WW2 OSS research and analysis branch. Dean of Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Attended the 1956, 1963 and 1966 Bilderberg. |
| Margaret Mead | American 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 Mellon | US lawyer who flew on Epstein's plane |
| Francis Pickens Miller | Hawkish spook |
| Hugh Montgomery (spook) | 63 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was one of the agency's greatest linguists. |
| Henry Morgan | Spooky Morgan Stanley banker |
| Lawrence de Neufville | OSS agent, recruited by John Baker into the CIA |
| Franz Neumann | Office of Strategic Services |
| 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. |
| Robert Pickus | Spooky "peace activist" who proposed that in "the current political climate, war is essential for justice to prevail". |
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References
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.182.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.8.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
- ↑ https://codenames.info/operation/muzac-project/
- ↑ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marlene_Dietrich#World_War_II
