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Author | : Eugene Liptak |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2013-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472801830 |
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The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt. Agents were enlisted from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specialising in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. In 1944 the number of men and women working in the service totalled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Author | : Barry Kātz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Foreign Intelligence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much has been written about the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--the forerunner of the CIA--and the exploits of its agents during World War II. Virtually unknown, however, is the work of the extraordinary community of scholars who were handpicked by "Wild Bill" Donovan and William L. Langer and recruited for wartime service in the OSS's Research and Analysis Branch (R&A). Known to insiders as the "Chairborne Division," the faculty of R&A was drawn from a dozen social science disciplines and challenged to apply its academic skills in the struggle against fascism. Its mandate: to collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence about the enemy. Foreign Intelligence is the first comprehensive history of this extraordinary behind-the-scenes group. The R&A Branch assembled scholars of widely divergent traditions and practices--Americans and recent European émigrés; philosophers, historians, and economists; regionalists and functionalists; Marxists and positivists--all engaged in the heady task of translating the abstractions of academic discourse into practical politics. Drawing on extensive, newly declassified archival sources, Barry M. Katz traces the careers of the key players in R&A, whose assessments helped to shape U.S. policy both during and after the war. He shows how these scholars, who included some of the most influential theorists of our time, laid the foundation of modern intelligence work. Their reports introduced the theories and methods of academic discourse into the workings of government, and when they returned to their universities after the war, their wartime experience forever transformed the world of scholarship. Authoritative, probing, and wholly original, Foreign Intelligence not only sheds new light on this overlooked aspect of the U.S. intelligence record, it also offers a startling perspective on the history of intellectual thought in the twentieth century.
Author | : Eugene Liptak |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2013-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849080984 |
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The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt. Agents were enlisted from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specialising in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. In 1944 the number of men and women working in the service totalled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Secrets War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume's twenty-four papers, presented by veterans and historians of the OSS, discuss the United States on the brink of war; the OSS operations at the headquarters level and in the field throughout western Europe, the Balkans, and Asia; and the OSS's legacy.
Author | : Betty Lussier |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Intrepid Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. A college student in Maryland when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion. Armed with a private pilot's license, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was soon ferrying planes and pilots for the RAF, and her memoir describes those days in thrilling detail. After the Normandy invasion, when women pilots were barred from delivering planes to the combat zones on the continent, she went to the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services, which was recruiting field agents. Her experiences with a special liaison unit in Algeria, Sicily, Italy, and France helping to set up a chain of double agents and transmit misinformation to the enemy are described in compelling detail as she takes the reader step-by-step through some memorable cases that helped bring the war to an end.
Author | : Kirk Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unfortunately, OSS personnel, who first began entering the country in the late summer of 1943, found themselves caught up in a ruthless civil war between Draza Mihailovich's Nationalists or Chetniks and Josip Broz Tito's Partisans.
Author | : Terry Crowdy |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846032769 |
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Osprey's study of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents during World War II (1939-1945). On average an SOE agent would be dead within three months of being dropped in the field. Terry Crowdy tells the extraordinary story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and unorthodox training methods, particularly the unarmed combat training provided by the notorious Fairburn and Sykes partnership. As well as detailing these controversial techniques, the training chapter also covers the tough physical training course and parachute training that all recruits had to endure before being sent into occupied Europe. Crowdy also examines the SOE's unique system of codes, which included each agent composing their own poem as well as using quotations from famous pieces of literature to convey secret messages, and explores the strengths and weaknesses of this system. Full-color artwork and photographs show the innovative equipment, including the S-Phones and Eureka sets, which allowed the agent to communicate directly with pilots and other agents. Lastly, the book recounts the incredible combat missions of the SOE agents, including operations in the field with Yugoslav and Greek partisans, as well as sabotage missions ranging from blowing up bridges to the raising of full-scale partisan armies as they attempted to fulfill Churchill's directive to set Occupied Europe ablaze.
Author | : United States. War Department. Strategic Services Unit. History Project |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 900 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Subversive activities |
ISBN | : |
Download War Report, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume 1 of the OSS War Report outlines the growth of COI/ OSS in Washington and the development of the functions of its various branches. In volume 2, OSS activity in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East is related, not by branches, but according to each successive target area. "This War Report presents a well-rounded study of the first comprehensive organization for intelligence and unorthodox warfare in the history of the United States. I only regret that limitations of time prevented a fuller recording of OSS operations and experience. The importance of OSS lies not only in its role in hastening military victory, but also in the development of the concept of unorthodox warfare which alone constitutes a major contribution. Of even farther reaching importance are the lessons learned and the contributions made to the future of American defense and foreign policy. The experience of OSS showed above all how essential it is for winning the war and keeping the peace to base national policy upon accurate and complete intelligence. Unorthodox warfare is now recognized as a vital part of our defense system." - William J. Donovan, Director, Office of Strategic Services.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
ISBN | : |
Download The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : W.E.B. Griffin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144063517X |
Download Soldier Spies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Griffin's plot stays hot and moves at quicksilver speed." --Kirkus Reviews Two Americans in the just-born Office of Strategic Services take on their most important assignment during World War II: to extract--or eliminate--those Germans with the expertise to develop the atomic bomb.