Office of Strategic Services

Office of Strategic Services   (Intelligence agency)
An OSS training film
Successor	Strategic Services Unit
Formation	June 13, 1942
Extinction	30 September 1945
Leader	Head of the Office of Strategic Services
Type	intelligence agency
Staff	13,000
Interest of	Omer Becu, Jacob Esterline, Jacobus Oldenbroek
Subpage	•Office of Strategic Services/Head
Membership	•  John Magruder •  Allen Dulles •  Frank Wisner •  David Bruce •  Whitney Hart Shepardson •  Thomas W. Braden •  Richard Helms •  William Casey •  Royall Tyler •  Kermit Roosevelt •  Tracy Barnes •  Arthur Schlesinger •  Stewart Alsop •  Charles B. Fahs •  Chadbourne Gilpatric •  Norman Holmes Pearson •  James Angleton •  Richard Ellman •  John Hay Whitney •  DeWitt Poole •  Ivar Bryce •  John Ford •  E. Howard Hunt •  Philip Horton •  Ernest Hemingway •  Francis Pickens Miller •  Alfred Parry •  Eugene Fodor •  Marcello Girosi •  Ilia Tolstoy •  Julia McWilliams Child •  Raymond Guest •  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry •  John Hemingway •  Serafino Romualdi •  Walter Levy •  Lawrence de Neufville •  Harold Weisberg •  Hugh Tovar •  John K. Singlaub •  Jacob Esterline •  William Diebold •  Michael Elkins •  Raymond Rocca •  Lyman Kirkpatrick •  Aline Griffith •  Hugh Montgomery (diplomat) •  C. D. Jackson •  Franklin Lindsay •  Paul Helliwell •  George H. Olmsted •  Henry Lithgow Roberts •  Ulius Amoss •  Louis Bloomfield •  Hans Tofte •  William Macomber •  Walter Sterling Surrey •  Robert Pickus •  Philip Crowe
Precursor to the CIA.

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.

US President Truman ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945. 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.

 

Known members

63 of the 296 of the members already have pages here:

Member	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.
James Burnham	"The first neoconservative", spooky propagandist philosopher
Ray Cline	Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
William Sloane Coffin
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
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
Albert Jolis	Diamond dealer with Oppenheimers, OSS and CIA ties.
Kermit Roosevelt Jr	Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. CIA agent.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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
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 who 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
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".
Henry Lithgow Roberts	Officer in the Office of Strategic Services during WW2 who became leading Eastern Europe scholar while keeping up his intelligence activities.
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