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    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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    2017. "Office of Strategic Services facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Office of Strategic Services". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    operations Defense Clandestine Service Special Collection Service William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan Office of Strategic Services Special Activities Center...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    OSS Society (category Office of Strategic Services)
    Veterans of the OSS, the OSS Society is the association of veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, dedicated to preserving the legacy of the famed...
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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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    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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    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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    the Vietnam War, each of the military services deployed its own cryptologic units, supported by the NSA, which set up a number of SIGINT Support Groups...
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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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    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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  • 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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    High Standard .22 pistol (category Semi-automatic pistols of the United States)
    military model used by the Office of Strategic Services and later the US Military and Central Intelligence Agency. List of U.S. Army weapons by supply catalog...
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    source of conflict between the two men. On June 13, 1942, Roosevelt split the functions and created two new agencies: the Office of Strategic Services, a...
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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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