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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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  • Intelligence and Counter-Espionage branches of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy was instrumental in...
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    The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a document written by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944. The manual was declassified by the Central Intelligence...
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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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  • Operation Safehaven (1944–1948) (category Aftermath of World War II)
    Department of State, the Department of War, The Department of Treasury, the Office of Censorship, the Office of Strategic Services, the FBI and the Office of Naval...
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    William J. Donovan (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    is best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Central Intelligence Group (category Office of Strategic Services)
    Group (CIG) was the direct successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), and the direct predecessor to the...
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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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    Sterling Hayden (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    "Wild Bill" Donovan's Office of the Coordinator of Information. Hamilton remained there after it became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He received...
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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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    establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency (created by the National Security Act of 1947). After the end of World War II, the Office of Strategic Services was...
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    assassinations of foreign leaders. During World War II, U.S. intelligence and covert operations had been undertaken by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)....
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    Bill" Donovan called the Office of the Coordinator of Information, which was the precursor to the Office of Strategic Services. He was one the first men...
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  • Cloak and Dagger (1946 film) (category Cultural depictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer)
    the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to contact European scientists working on the German nuclear weapons program and Lilli Palmer as a member of the...
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    James B. Donovan (category American people of Irish descent)
    States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence...
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    members of Office of Strategic Services (OSS), while some of the later games focus on modern warfare. The concept, story, and executive production of the...
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  • Roosevelt), and Maurice Halperin (a section head in the Office of Strategic Services). The identification of individuals mentioned in Venona transcripts is sometimes...
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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 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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    operations Defense Clandestine Service Special Collection Service William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan Office of Strategic Services Special Activities Center...
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    Fritz Wiedemann (category Ambassadors of Germany to the United States)
    American Trade – via Google Books. "The Testimony of Fritz Wiedemann / Headquarters / Office of Strategic Services / China Theater / TOP SECRET". digital.library...
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  • Fairburne, a German-American Special Operations Executive and Office of Strategic Services operative battling Axis forces during World War II. The series...
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    to few other Jews in Austria. In 1941 and 1943, the Office of Strategic Services (a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) interviewed Bloch to...
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  • Shanghai Municipal Police, and was later taught in expanded form to Office of Strategic Services and Special Operations Executive members during World War II...
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  • SAC-46 (handgun) (category Office of Strategic Services)
    American clandestine handgun from 1945 which was developed for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
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  • Secret Reports on Nazi Germany (category Office of Strategic Services)
    School Contribution to the War Effort is a book composed of the original Office of Strategic Services reports on Nazi Germany prepared primarily by Franz Neumann...
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