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 Office of Strategic Services     | |
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| Successor | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Formation | June 13, 1942 |
| Extinction | September 20, 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 |
| Precursor to the CIA. | |
OSS head William Donovan had been close to British Security Coordination (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many other BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS. [1]
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]
People
- William Donovan - head
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
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 | 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 | |
| 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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