Overview: Office of Strategic Services CIA film describing OSS recruitment, training, and missions during WWII The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was...
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2677th Office of Strategic Services Regiment was a commando (special operations capable) regiment that was seconded to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)...
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Branch (R&A) of the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was tasked with identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the Axis powers...
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2017. "Office of Strategic Services facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Office of Strategic Services". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved...
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Special forces (category Types of military forces)
unsuccessful. The United States formed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II under the Medal of Honor recipient William J. Donovan. This...
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branches of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy was instrumental in preserving the two branches of the OSS...
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of Narcotics, a precursor to the modern Drug Enforcement Administration. During World War II, he worked in North Africa for the Office of Strategic Services...
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The Strategic Support Branch (SSB) was a United States intelligence organization created by the Department of Defense (DoD) with support from the Defense...
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1945 London after the end of World War Two, Traitors follows a young woman recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to identify a Soviet spy...
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Central Intelligence Agency (redirect from Office of Development and Engineering)
The agency's founding followed the dissolution of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War II by President Harry S. Truman, who...
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Central Intelligence Group (category Office of Strategic Services)
successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and the direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. The official duties of CIG are quoted...
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CIA Museum (category Installations of the Central Intelligence Agency)
Museum's scope of collection includes material associated with all activities of the CIA's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), material...
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George Hunter White (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
he trained undercover Allied operatives for the Office of Strategic Services on the fundamentals of counterespionage before they were deployed on missions...
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elite members of Office of Strategic Services (OSS), while later games focus on modern warfare. The concept, story, and executive production of the first...
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psychologically. A 1943 report by Walter C. Langer for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) describes Hitler as having repressed homosexual tendencies...
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OSS Deer Team (category Office of Strategic Services)
The OSS Deer Team was established by the United States Office of Strategic Services on May 16, 1945 to attack and intercept materials on the railroad from...
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Smatchet (category Office of Strategic Services)
the Office of Strategic Services catalogue as a cross between a machete and a bolo, it was actually based on the Royal Welch Fusiliers Trench Knife of World...
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Eloise Page (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
1942, working under William J. Donovan, head of the CIA's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. She became interested in intelligence work and...
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Sabotage (redirect from Incident of sabotage)
related to Sabotage. "Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Simple Sabotage Field Manual - 1944" (PDF). "Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Sabotage and Demolition...
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soldiers. The games follow Karl Fairburne, a German-American Office of Strategic Services operative battling Axis forces during World War II. The series...
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Old Naval Observatory (category Buildings of the United States government in Washington, D.C.)
to a new campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The headquarters of the Office of Strategic Services was located in the E Street Complex until its dissolution...
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Special Operations Branch (category Office of Strategic Services)
Operations Branch (SO) was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that "pioneered" many of the unconventional warfare, counter-insurgency...
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Operation Cornflakes (category Office of Strategic Services operations)
Operation Cornflakes was a morale operation by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that aimed to trick Deutsche Reichspost into inadvertently...
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Greenup, a real-life World War II mission in which the American Office of Strategic Services parachuted Jewish agents Frederick Mayer and Hans Wijnberg, and...
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Eric Erickson (spy) (category American people of Swedish descent)
for the Office of Strategic Services during World War 2. Erickson was born in 1896 in Brooklyn, New York State in the United States, the son of Swedish...
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produced by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of the United States are still in use today within special...
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of the United States, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council on all intelligence matters. The DNI, supported by the Office of...
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Counterterrorism Center, the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Strategic Support Branch, and the Defense Attaché System. The plan was developed...
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a surname O.S.S. (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents Oss (film), a 1976 Norwegian post-apocalyptic disaster...
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OSS Detachment 101 (category Groups of World War II)
Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services (formed under the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) just weeks before it evolved into the...
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