The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) [3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for …

In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became the first independent US intelligence agency. It only lasted for three years and three months but it became the basis for the modern Central Intelligence Agency.

2021年2月3日 · The OSS established more than 40 overseas offices during World War II, extending from Casablanca to Shanghai, and from Stockholm to Pretoria. After the OSS was terminated on September 20, 1945, by Executive Order; most records were eventually transferred to two agencies of the Federal government.

2024年4月23日 · Descriptions of 23,973 personnel files from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) between 1941 and 1945 are available in the National Archives Catalog. To search for an individual's name in the OSS personnel files: Scroll down to the "Includes" field and click on the link for "Search within this Series."

2024年2月13日 · Office of Strategic Services, World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States. Cut-off text on some pages due to tight binding. Group Research Collection (Columbia University. Libraries) Reviews cannot be added to this item.

America’s entry into the war following the intelligence failure of Pearl Harbor led to the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on 13 June 1942. Snow suits like this one were worn by OSS’s Norwegian Special Operations Group during behind-the-lines ski-parachute sabotage operations in Norway during World War II.

This article examines OSS coun-terintelligence during World War II, and addresses the question concern-ing how the OSS handled double agents and the subsequent intelli-gence impact. The paper traces X-2’s development from 1943 to 1944 as it built the apparatus to manage double agents; discusses X-2 double-agent operations in France, Germany, and

Here are ten activities of the OSS and its agents during the Second World War. Virginia Hall receiving her Distinguished Service Cross from General William Donovan for her activities during the war. CIA Virginia Hall evading the Nazis in France. Before Virginia Hall joined the OSS she worked for the British SOE in France.

US entry into World War II in December 1941 led to a dra-matic expansion for Donovan’s organization. In June 1942, Roosevelt reor-ganized COI as the OSS, in which military and civilian per-sonnel had responsibilities in the fields of intelligence and counterintelligence, psychologi-cal warfare, and guerrilla oper-

Considered as a legacy unit of the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) has assumed almost mythical stature since World War II. Several OSS veterans, among them Colonel Aaron Bank, Lieutenant Colonel Jack T. Shannon, and Majors Herbert R. Brucker and Caesar J. Civitella brought unconventional warfare (UW ...