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Before resigning amid a sex scandal last November, Petraeus played a key role in convincing Pentagon officials that Joyeuse, a retired doctor from upstate New York, deserved to lie in rest among some of America's greatest military heroes, people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.


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target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;&#x22;The Secrets of The OSS Society Dinner&#x22; from The Washington Post&#x3c;/a&#x3e;&#x3c;br&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-10-19T10:13:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/84.html#unique-entry-id-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/84.html#unique-entry-id-100</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/16/inside-the-beltway-142634264/&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;&#x22;Strategic Event&#x22; from The Washington Times&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-10-17T05:36:08-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/83.html#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/83.html#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nationalossmuseum.org/&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;The OSS Society announces plans to build the National OSS Museum of American Intelligence and Special Operations&#x3c;sup&#x3e;&#x26;#8482;&#x3c;/sup&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-10-17T05:30:31-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/82.html#unique-entry-id-96</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/82.html#unique-entry-id-96</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS Memorial Dedicated in France</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-09-11T10:10:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/81.html#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/81.html#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/decades-after-duty-in-the-oss-and-cia-spy-girls-find-each-other-in-retirement/2011/05/28/AG2xvZmH_story.html&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;Decades after duty in the OSS and CIA&#x2c; &#x201c;spy girls&#x201d; find each other in retirement&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-06-27T11:15:53-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/80.html#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/80.html#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/sports/golf/when-the-rounds-were-ammo-at-congressional-country-club.html?_r=1&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;&#x22;When the Rounds Were Ammo&#x22; from The New York Times&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-06-13T00:28:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/79.html#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/79.html#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MG John Singlaub&#x2c; USA (Ret.) Receives the Bull Simons Award</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-06-01T16:27:26-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/78.html#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/78.html#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[MG John Singlaub, USA (Ret.), Chairman of The OSS Society, receiving the Bull Simons Award from Admiral Eric Olson, USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, in Tampa, FL on May 18, 2011.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www2.tbo.com/news/opinion/2011/may/17/MEOPINO2-baywatch-sleeping-beauty-and-seal-pioneer-ar-207817/&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;&#x27;Baywatch&#x2c;&#x27; Sleeping Beauty and SEAL pioneers&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-05-18T05:59:28-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/77.html#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/77.html#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Clandestine forces marker donated by The OSS Society included in the April 8&#x2c; 2011 dedication of the Airborne Battle Memorial at Fort Benning</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-04-12T20:23:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/79.html#unique-entry-id-89</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/79.html#unique-entry-id-89</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=files/pressrelease.pdf target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;Admiral Eric T. Olson to receive the 2011 William J. Donovan Award&#x3c;sup&#x3e;&#x26;reg;&#x3c;/sup&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-04-06T04:19:38-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/78.html#unique-entry-id-88</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/78.html#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/book-review-a-covert-affair-julia-child-and-paul-child-in-the-oss-by-jennet-conant.htm&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;Jennet&#x27;s Conant&#x27;s &#x3c;i&#x3e;A Covert Affair: The Adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-04-02T04:17:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/77.html#unique-entry-id-87</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/77.html#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/21/war-oss-donovan-world/&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22;&#x3e;Op-Ed about General Donovan from The Harvard Crimson&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2011-04-22T04:43:09-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/76.html#unique-entry-id-86</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/76.html#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.cbs19.tv/Global/story.asp?S=14189898&#x22;&#x3e;Veteran in Silsbee honored by the King of Norway&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-03-04T10:50:35-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/75.html#unique-entry-id-85</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/75.html#unique-entry-id-85</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506282.html&#x22;&#x3e;Washington Post review of &#x3c;i&#x3e;Wild Bill Donovan&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-27T04:20:11-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/74.html#unique-entry-id-84</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/74.html#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.necn.com/02/23/11/Worcester-man-receives-Bronze-Star-for-s/landing_newengland.html?blockID=416553&#x26;feedID=4206&#x22;&#x3e;Worcester Man Receives Bronze Star for Secret World War II Missions&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-23T17:32:29-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/73.html#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/73.html#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio-player?nid=13762&#x22;&#x3e;Listen to Doug Waller discuss &#x3c;i&#x3e;Wild Bill Donovan&#x3c;/i&#x3e; on NPR&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-21T17:19:16-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/72.html#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/72.html#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021802873.html&#x22;&#x3e;Dr. Christian Lambertsen&#x2c; OSS officer who created early SCUBA device&#x2c; dies at 93&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-19T21:37:09-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/71.html#unique-entry-id-81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/71.html#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Conant-t.html?src=twrhp&#x22;&#x3e;Jennet Conant&#x27;s review of &#x3c;i&#x3e;Wild Bill Donovan&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-12T23:22:04-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/70.html#unique-entry-id-80</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/70.html#unique-entry-id-80</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124663638197624.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&#x22;&#x3e;Wall Street Journal Review of &#x3c;i&#x3e;Wild Bill Donovan&#x3c;/i&#x3e;&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-12T23:22:04-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/69.html#unique-entry-id-79</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/69.html#unique-entry-id-79</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>To Your Stealth: Honoring the OSS</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-06-30T09:51:11-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/69.html#unique-entry-id-78</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/69.html#unique-entry-id-78</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That reunion, held at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, was one of the first OSS gatherings not intended solely as a social occasion. 

...Most recently Charles was his dad's literary agent, helping persuade the Naval Institute Press in Annapolis to publish his father's war memoirs last month. 

...Its agents were selected not for formal military expertise, but because they could use their wits and find innovative ways, in dodgy situations, to win the war.


In 1942, Dan Pinck was a recent graduate from Sidwell Friends School and in his first year at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. 

..."What headquarters decided, ingeniously, is to find someone who is neither old enough or smart enough to be fearful," Dan Pinck, now 79, recounted last month at a speech at the International Spy Museum. 

...The OSS sent him to a small village in southeast China called Hotien to report intelligence about enemy troop movements, weather patterns and possible bombing targets along the Japanese-held coastline 19 miles away.


He carried with him a curious array of tools, including $ 1 million in cash to pay his Nationalist army assistants and boxes of condoms that he was told would greatly please Nationalist military officers. 

...Sure enough, Pinck wrote in his memoir, they found a page from the Boy Scout manual and an incriminating scroll with information about Pinck and his associates. 

...Charles Pinck, who lives in Georgetown, is the only one of the four to have a lasting fascination with his father's war tales.The father exposed his son early on to OSS friends who had lively war careers and maintained a sense of derring-do later in life. 

...He saw the connection between his own work and his father's wartime responsibilities, even if it is less dangerous to pore over public records than foil spies.


...But I use lots of the same skills and attributes as folks in the intelligence field use," says Charles Pinck, who does only corporate work now.


Since becoming president of the 1,000-member OSS Society last year, he has been working on an oral history project with the Smithsonian Institution, publishing quarterly newsletters and overseeing an e-mail discussion group with requests from the descendants of OSS agents asking for information about their relatives. 

..."For a lot of people, including my father, if it wasn't the best part of their lives," he says, "it was certainly the most interesting part of their lives."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.douglascwaller.com/&#x22;&#x3e;&#x3c;i&#x3e;Wild Bill Donovan&#x3c;/i&#x3e; by Douglas Waller&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-02-05T23:04:41-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/68.html#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/68.html#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/world/americas/26bessac.html?_r=1&#x22;&#x3e;Frank Bessac&#x2c; Scholar and Adventurer&#x2c; Dies at 88&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-01-19T05:43:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/67.html#unique-entry-id-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/67.html#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/patton_killed_bull_jPmBugzfEeff9vyMQ4cjDO&#x22;&#x3e;Read OSS Society President Charles Pinck&#x27;s letter to the editor of the New York Post&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2010-12-29T13:45:51-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/66.html#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/66.html#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://williamasmith.blogspot.com/&#x22;&#x3e;The Art of William A. Smith&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-12-16T07:47:53-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/65.html#unique-entry-id-74</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/65.html#unique-entry-id-74</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.skipperpress.com/irrawaddy_ambush.htm&#x22;&#x3e;OSS Detachment 101 Painting Unveiled&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-11-27T10:38:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/64.html#unique-entry-id-73</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/64.html#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.finland.org/Public/default.aspx?contentid=203249&#x26;nodeid=35833&#x26;culture=en-US&#x22;&#x3e;&#x22;Eero Saarinen: a Reputation for Innovation&#x22; at the Finnish Embassy&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-11-26T12:13:16-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/63.html#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/63.html#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Remarks by Admiral Eric Olson&#x2c; USN</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-11-18T20:06:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/61.html#unique-entry-id-71</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/61.html#unique-entry-id-71</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s ceremony is a fitting tribute to one of our Nation&rsquo;s finest and most innovative leaders &ndash; a heroic military officer, dedicated public servant, and most importantly, a  PATRIOT&hellip; who consistently answered the bell for his country.    


I would like to start by welcoming a few of the distinguished guests here today, Ambassador Hugh Montgomery, Director Robert Becker, Misters Dan and Charles Pinck, Generals Brown and Hughes, and most importantly the brave men and women of the Office of Strategic Services who are here today.   


As everyone here knows - almost seven decades ago, President Franklin Roosevelt asked his Columbia Law School classmate; a powerful Wall Street lawyer, retired Army Colonel, and World War I Medal of Honor recipient, to evaluate the global security challenges faced by the U.S. military and provide strategic recommendations on how to best meet America&rsquo;s intelligence requirements.  ...  Based on William Donovan&rsquo;s recommendations &ndash;President Roosevelt appointed him the Coordinator of Information (COI) in July 1941 and less than a year later, America was engulfed in World War II; Donovan&rsquo;s COI evolved into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); and Wall Street Lawyer Bill Donovan was once again Colonel &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Donovan.    World War II&rsquo;s OSS was not like any other government agency in American history &ndash; established to meet the special conditions of WWII and tasked with intelligence and operations &ndash; the OSS was an enigma.  


...However, it is not only the special operations and intelligence communities that benefited from Donovan&rsquo;s patriotic service, the State Department also has reason to honor former Ambassador Donovan for his service as a post-war diplomat in Europe and as President Eisenhower&rsquo;s Ambassador to Thailand in 1953.  

...I finally concluded that given the General&rsquo;s enduring impact on both the Defense and Intelligence establishments, it is only fitting that we recognize and remember him here at the center of American foreign policy.    However, it did cross my mind that considering General Donovan&rsquo;s well-known disdain for bureaucracy and high regard for innovation, improvisation, and independence &ndash; I think he might have preferred to have his office in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, or even behind enemy lines.  


...In this light, Wild Bill Donovan was not only a World War I hero and accomplished World War II leader but more importantly, he is a current, albeit seasoned, strategist for today&rsquo;s and tomorrow&rsquo;s most pressing security challenges.  ...  The OSS brought together actors, authors, politicians, athletes, titans of industry, and numerous others to accomplish a single objective &ndash; &ldquo;to merge operations with intelligence with great effect,&rdquo; -  &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Donovan&rsquo;s &ldquo;glorious amateurs&rdquo; were hand-selected recruits from across the American landscape who were encouraged to improvise and innovate.      Considering the importance of his objective, I would theorize that General Donovan would have wanted the two organizations that resulted from his brief experiment to optimize the most important characteristics of the OSS and be more OSS-like and less DoD-like.  


...Few quotes attributed to Wild Bill Donovan over the years are more timeless than the following two when we look back and remember his accomplishments and simultaneously use his OSS-model to look into the future.    When asked to describe the ideal OSS candidate, Donovan once said a &rdquo;Ph.D. who can win a bar fight,&rdquo; -  in making this description Wild Bill accurately captured the characteristics and traits that have always described our country&rsquo;s elite fighting forces&hellip;intelligent, agile, fierce, capable, and tough.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>London&#x27;s Special Forces Club Celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the Special Operation Executive&#x27;s Founding</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-11-19T19:45:18-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/62.html#unique-entry-id-70</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/62.html#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Photographs by Naresh Verlander


(l t r) OSS Society President Charles Pinck, HRH Princess Anne, patron of the Special Forces Club, and OSS Society Director Col. Andy Anderson, USA (Ret.).


HRH Princess Anne


Remarks by HRH The Princess Royal


Charles Pinck presenting a gift from The OSS Society to Sir Colin McColl, Chairman of the Special Forces Club


Remarks by OSS Society President Charles Pinck


SOE veterans at the November 3, 2010 celebration at the Imperial War Museum]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>October 1&#x2c; 2010 Dedication of the William J. Donovan Memorial Conference Room at OSS Headquarters&#x2c; Navy Hill&#x2c; Washington&#x2c; DC</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-10-19T19:08:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/60.html#unique-entry-id-67</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/60.html#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Admiral Eric Olson, USN


OSS Veterans cutting the ribbon to the East Building on Navy Hill


OSS Society President Charles Pinck


Fisher Howe, Special Assistant to General William Donovan


OSS Society Chairman MG John K. Singlaub, USA (Ret.)


General Bryan D. Brown, USA (Ret.)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>66 Years Later&#x2c; a Bronze Star</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-10-17T16:55:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/59.html#unique-entry-id-66</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/59.html#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The New York Times


By Corey Kilgannon


14 October 2010


For more than 50 years, George Vujnovich was a mild-mannered salesman working away at his small business in Queens and living a quiet life on a quiet block in Jackson Heights.   He never spoke, even to his closest friends, about his secret role organizing one of the greatest rescue missions of World War II.


&ldquo;There was a strict rule in the O.S.S. and not talk about these things &mdash; they teach you to compartmentalize them and lock them away,&rdquo; Mr. Vujnovich said.


The O.S.S. was the Office of Strategic Services &mdash; a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.   And what Mr. Vujnovich kept locked away all these years was his key role as the operations officer for Operation Halyard, a daring rescue of more than 500 Allied forces airmen during World War II in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.


Read the complete story at The New York Times]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ross Perot Receives the William J. Donovan Award&#x3c;sup&#x3e;&#xae;&#x3c;/sup&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-10-04T08:59:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/58.html#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/58.html#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We've been thinking a lot about Ross Perot these days -- hasn't everyone? -- what with elections coming up, and a certain splinter group that wants to take back America and such.   But before the billionaire stormed the barricades of the two-party system with his 1992 independent presidential campaign, he was, of course, a businessman, a Navy man, a ferocious advocate for POWs, wounded soldiers and vets.   So, no surprise that he practically glowed Saturday night at the Mandarin Oriental in the presence of the military brass and retired spooks at an OSS Society dinner gathering...


Read the complete story at The Washington Post...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2010 William J. Donovan Award&#x3c;font size=&#x22;1&#x22;&#x3e;&#x3c;sup&#x3e;&#xae;&#x3c;/sup&#x3e;&#x3c;/font&#x3e; Invitation</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-08-04T22:06:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/57.html#unique-entry-id-64</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/57.html#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Click Image To Download...
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>NUREMBERG Coming to U.S. Theaters After Decades-Long Wait</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-07-29T19:34:50-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/56.html#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/56.html#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. theatrical premiere of NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY, completed for the U.S. Department of War in 1948, will take place at the New York Film Festival on September 28, 2010, followed by a week-long run at the Film Forum cinema in Manhattan that starts on September 29.    Bookings in other U.S. cities to follow.    Commissioned by Pare Lorentz (head of Film/Theatre/Film in the War Department's Civil Affairs Division), NUREMBERG was written & directed by OSS Field Photographic Branch veteran Stuart Schulberg.    For political reasons, it was never released to U.S. theaters although it was widely shown throughout Germany as part of the Allies' denazification campaign.    For more information: www.nurembergfilm.org.


NUREMBERG was painstakingly restored and the soundtrack reconstructed by Stuart Schulberg's daughter, Sandra Schulberg, with the help of Josh Waletzky.    Both are noted independent filmmakers.    The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration uses original audio from the International Military Tribunal thus permtiting audiences to hear the courtroom participants -- prosecutors, defendants & defense attorneys -- speaking in their own voices.    NUREMBERG shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals.    The trial established the "Nuremberg principles," and laid the groundwork for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title></title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-06-20T11:26:48-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/55.html#unique-entry-id-62</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/55.html#unique-entry-id-62</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer and the author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA, spoke to The OSS Society at its annual meeting at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD on May 23, 2010.&nbsp;   Congressional Country Club served as the primary OSS training facility and was known as Area F.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Whitney Harris&#x2c; Nuremberg Prosecutor&#x2c; Dies at 97</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-05-14T17:13:39-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/54.html#unique-entry-id-61</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/54.html#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The International Military Tribunal, as the trials were officially known, was a joint effort by the Allied powers that formally opened in 1945, months after the end of World War II. 

...&ldquo;In those sessions, in a bloodless, unapologetic way, Hoess described the extermination system at Auschwitz,&rdquo; Professor Barrett said, &ldquo;and claimed that 2.5 million people had been exterminated.&rdquo;


...&ldquo;There may have been a macabre twist to Hoess&rsquo;s testimony,&rdquo; Mr. Harris said in a speech at an international law conference in 2008.   &ldquo;Since he was to be labeled &lsquo;the world&rsquo;s supreme murderer&rsquo; in any case, he may have thought in his morbid mind to establish a record of mass killings never to be surpassed by any other man.&rdquo;


Professor Barrett said that Mr. Harris was responsible for prosecuting Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who commanded the Reich Main Security Office, which oversaw the Gestapo and supervised the entire concentration camp system.


To support the case against Kaltenbrunner, Mr. Harris offered in evidence photographs showing him at Mauthausen, the main extermination center, alongside his security office predecessor, Heinrich Himmler, the commander of the SS, the Nazi police, The New York Times reported in 1946.


...The Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, had dispatched Mr. Harris to Europe in the last years of World War II to gather evidence of Nazi atrocities.


...Forty-nine years after the last Nuremberg trial, Mr. Harris and two colleagues, Henry T. King Jr. and Benjamin Ferencz, joined forces to help shape the creation of the International Criminal Court. ...  The three prosecutors traveled to Rome and lobbied the delegates to broaden the definition of war crimes to include wars of aggression, as opposed to those fought in self-defense or authorized by the United Nations.


&ldquo;They used their moral authority; they were persistent, and ultimately the delegates included a reference to the crime of war of aggression in the court&rsquo;s statute,&rdquo; said Michael P. 

...Besides his wife, the former Anna Barwick, he is survived by a son, Eugene; three stepsons, Charles Foster Jr., Christopher Galakatos and Greg Galakatos; a stepdaughter, Theresa Galakatos; four grandchildren; and nine stepgrandchildren.


...His book, &ldquo;Tyranny on Trial: The Evidence at Nuremberg&rdquo; (1954), was described by The Times as &ldquo;the first complete historical and legal analysis of the Nuremburg trial&rdquo; and &ldquo;a book of enduring importance.&rdquo;


...&ldquo;Although of the great powers only the United States, China and Russia remain non-signatories,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;Germany, the nation whose despotic leadership brought on the Second World War, was the 23rd nation to ratify.&rdquo;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today (1948)</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-04-19T21:56:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/53.html#unique-entry-id-60</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/53.html#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, NUREMBERG shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis' own films and records.   These films were found and edited for presentation in the Nuremberg courtroom by a special OSS War Crimes team that was part of John Ford's larger Field Photographic Branch.   The trial established the "Nuremberg principles" -- the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.   Though shown in Germany as part of the Allies' denazification campaign in 1948 and 1949, US officials decided not to release NUREMBERG to US theaters, nor was it shown in any other country.   Over the years, the picture negative was lost or destroyed.   Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky's restoration uses original audio from the trial, allowing you to hear the defendants' and prosecutors' voices for the first time.   The film ends with Justice Robert H.   Jackson's stirring words -- "Let Nuremberg stand as a warning to all who plan and wage aggressive war" -- words which leap the decades and make NUREMBERG startlingly contemporary.   For more information: www.nurembergfilm.org 


Additional information is being sought about the officers and secretaries who served in the OSS Field Photo Branch, based in the South Agriculture building in Washington, DC, and about the men and women assigned to its War Crimes unit and sent to Germany to locate and prepare film evidence for the Nuremberg trial between June and December 1945.   Please contact SSchulberg@aol.com. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Glorious Amateurs</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-03-18T15:09:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/52.html#unique-entry-id-59</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/52.html#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I did not discuss the scene in which the Nazi colonel negotiates the terms of his surrender with the O.S.S., the focal point of Mr. Rev&rsquo;s article.   (Had I done so, I might have mentioned the humorous fact that while watching the film on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard last summer, the audience burst into laughter when Colonel Landa demanded a home on Nantucket as part of his agreement.)


Mr. Rev discusses a different subject of which I am well aware: the negotiation between Allen Dulles of the O.S.S. and Karl Wolff that led to the surrender of German forces in Italy, ceasing hostilities, and saving untold thousands of lives.


Far from being &ldquo;inglorious basterds,&rdquo; the O.S.S. founder General William Donovan&rsquo;s &ldquo;glorious amateurs&rdquo; &mdash; the term he used to describe O.S.S. personnel &mdash; should be remembered for performing, to use his words, &ldquo;some of the bravest acts of the war.&rdquo;


Charles Pinck, President


The OSS Society


McLean, VA]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The names of all U.S. Det. 101 personnel who died in Burma have recently been added to the Special Operations Memorial at MacDill AFB&#x2c; FL.</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-03-13T16:53:46-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/51.html#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/51.html#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Issue #123 Of The Carpetbagger</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-02-20T16:42:39-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/50.html#unique-entry-id-57</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/50.html#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[See The Full Issue.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Congressman Charles Rangel presents Bronze Star posthumously awarded to Joseph Gould by US Army Decorations Board</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-02-02T09:15:33-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/49.html#unique-entry-id-56</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/49.html#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Shortly thereafter, Joseph Gould&rsquo;s background as a white collar union official in New York for the Screen Publicists Guild attracted the attention of the Office of Strategic Services.  ...  As a result, Joseph Gould was recruited into the OSS in 1943 and ordered to report to its top secret training facility at the newly converted Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.     In the spring of 1944, Army Lt. Joseph Gould received his orders to ship out and report to the Labor Desk of the London office of the OSS.


...In August 1944, the London office of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch prepared the blueprint for this campaign and presented it to Allied military commanders.  ...  The plan&rsquo;s objective: the collection of secret intelligence by means of espionage to be carried out by agents recruited from within dissident anti-Nazi groups now living in exile in England and Sweden.    It provided a roadmap for the planning and execution of over 50 missions that were dispatched into Germany under the leadership of William J. 

...He successfully recruited seven anti-Nazi German exiles then living in London during the fall of 1944 to lead these missions.   ...  Forgan, the successful recruitment of the Free Germany Committee exiles was &ldquo;entirely due to Joseph Gould&rsquo;s exceptional tact and diplomacy in skillfully handling these contacts.&rdquo;    Ultimately, Joseph Gould was charged with the responsibility of training the German exiles for their missions and &ldquo;displayed rare ingenuity and imagination in his briefing and preparation of these men.&rdquo;    In concluding his recommendation for the award of the Bronze Star to Joseph Gould, Colonel Forgan lauded his &ldquo;great devotion to duty&rdquo; and that he had &ldquo;played an essential part in preparing and activating important missions from which valuable results were obtained.&rdquo;


...The HAMMER mission into Berlin, led by two natives of that city -- Paul Lindner and Anton Ruh -- was dispatched in early March 1945.     According to Colonel Forgan, &ldquo;vital information was obtained as to conditions in Berlin, the disposition of troops in the Berlin area and remaining targets for bombing by the US Air Force.&rdquo;  ...  In addition, the work of the team of agents that led the PICKAXE mission into the southern German city of Landshut was later praised by William J. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Glorious Amateurs Needed</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2010-01-18T10:13:04-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/48.html#unique-entry-id-55</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/48.html#unique-entry-id-55</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[They included Virginia Hall (the only civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II), Sterling Hayden (who received a Silver Star for his actions behind enemy lines), Moe Berg (who undertook a mission to learn about German efforts to create an atomic bomb) and Ralph Bunche (who would become the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize). 

...William Fairbairn, the legendary expert in hand-to-hand-combat and martial arts, was close to 60 years old when he joined the OSS &ndash; and was still able to defeat men less than half his age. 

...Our intelligence community discourages the type of people who served so valiantly in the OSS from serving today. 

...I was contacted several years ago by someone wishing to join our nation's intelligence services. ...  He went on to get an undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern history from a top university with a 3.9 grade point average.   Later, he taught himself Farsi by moving to an Iranian expatriate community, spending thousands of hours learning the language fluently and the culture. 


...The only position offered to him was an alternate spot for an intelligence-related summer internship.   Had he been alive in World War II, the OSS would have grabbed him in a second.


Donovan said he would "rather have a young lieutenant with enough guts to disobey a direct order than a colonel too regimented to think and act for himself" and constantly reminded OSS personnel that they "could not succeed without taking chances."


...William Casey said of the OSS that "you didn't wait six months for a feasibility study to prove that an idea could work. ...  You didn't tie up the organization with red tape designed mostly to cover somebody's ass. 

...These are the same qualities our intelligence services so badly need today to win our war with terrorists.


...Charles T. Pinck is president of The OSS Society and is a partner in The Georgetown Group, an investigative and security services firm.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Time For A New OSS</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-12-08T21:34:06-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/47.html#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/47.html#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Thirty-thousand additional US troops will be headed to Afghanistan over the next several months, part of an intensified effort to regain territory from the Taliban and give the fledgling Afghan security forces a chance to take control of that nation. 

...The Taliban, the organization with which we are currently at war in Afghanistan, has almost no capability to stage international terrorist attacks and has confined its goals almost exclusively to the establishment of an Islamic state in Afghanistan. 

...In short, even assuming complete and total victory in Afghanistan, all we really will have accomplished is to prevent the possibility of that nation again becoming a safe haven for use by terrorist organizations bent on doing us harm.   We will not have defeated al Qaeda, and, in fact, we may not have even significantly degraded the capabilities of that organization. 

...The task of defeating al Qaeda, an international organization composed of clandestine terrorist cells, is not one that can be accomplished by Marine infantry battalions, carrier battle groups or armored divisions.   The task of hunting down and destroying a shadowy, creative enemy like this is one that must be done by an organization designed for the purpose, one which is equally at home in the world of intrigue and deception in which terrorist operatives hide.


For this work we need an outfit composed of select numbers of highly-skilled individuals who have spent years of their lives abroad learning the smell, feel and taste of the street in South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. ...  We need an entity whose leaders have the courage to take chances and the creativity to find solutions to problems no one else can solve.


...The CIA, unfortunately, remains a stiff, overly bureaucratic entity staffed at its senior levels overwhelmingly by individuals more focused on personal advancement and risk avoidance than they are on hunting down dangerous, clever adversaries.   There are thousands of good, patriotic Americans inside the CIA sweating blood in an effort to achieve victory in this war on terror. 

...Numbering 4,000 individuals, this office is composed of desk-bound bureaucrats whose primary impact on the collection of human intelligence seems to have been the creation of yet more bureaucracy. 

...Whether we leave Afghanistan in 2011 or not, we are still going to be at war with al Qaeda and its surrogates. 

...What we need is a new Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the legendary World War II-era spy organization known for its singular focus on mission accomplishment. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Book Reviews</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Bob Bergin</category><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2009-12-02T03:43:33-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/46.html#unique-entry-id-53</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/46.html#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service


By Frederic Wakeman, Jr.


Reviewed by Bob Bergin


Covert Action in the Cold War: US Policy, Intelligence and CIA Operations


By James Callanan


~ updated review ~


World War II: Saving the Reality (A Collector's Vault)


By Kenneth Rendell


Reviewed by Dan Pinck


Go To Book Reviews]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The OSS Society dedicated an OSS plaque at the Special Operations Memorial Foundation in Tampa&#x2c; FL on November 2&#x2c; 2009.</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-11-17T22:06:59-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/45.html#unique-entry-id-52</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/45.html#unique-entry-id-52</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(l. to r.)   Major Caesar Civitella, USA (Ret.), OSS Society Board Member Arthur Reinhardt, Geoff Barker, President of the Special Operations Memorial Foundation, and OSS Society Board Member Walter Mess.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Book Reviews</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2009-11-10T19:33:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/44.html#unique-entry-id-51</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/44.html#unique-entry-id-51</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Hornet's Sting: The Untold Story of Britain's Second World War Spy Thomas Sneum


By Mark Ryan


James Jesus Angleton, The CIA, & The Craft Of Counterintelligence


By Michael Holzman

Reviewed by Dan Pinck


Ian Fleming's Secret War


By Craig Cabell


Go To Book Reviews]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Book Reviews</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-10-24T20:16:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/43.html#unique-entry-id-49</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/43.html#unique-entry-id-49</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Cloak and Dagger Cook: A CIA Memoir


By Kay Shaw Nelson


Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5


By Christopher Andrew


Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA


By Charles Faddis


...Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America&rsquo;s Leading Comic Artists


By Andre Schiffrin


World War II: Saving the Reality (A Collector's Vault)


...The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History


...A Spy's Diary of World War II: Inside the OSS With an American Agent in Europe


By Wayne Nelson


Go To Book Reviews]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Issue #122 Of The Carpetbagger</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-10-16T11:15:28-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/42.html#unique-entry-id-48</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/42.html#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[See The Full Issue.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x27;Basterd&#x27;ized History</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2009-09-04T11:00:08-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/41.html#unique-entry-id-45</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/41.html#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ralph Bunche, who served in the Research and Analysis Division, was the first black to win the Nobel Peace Prize.   Georg Olden was a pioneering graphic designer who would become the first black to design a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service and designed the CBS eye logo.


...Donovan understood that America's racial diversity was its greatest strength, contrary to claims made by Nazi Germany that it was a weakness.   He made full use of this advantage in building his intelligence agency, noting that no other country in the world had so many citizens with knowledge of other countries.


...Donovan, no stranger to courage himself, remarked the OSS Operational Groups, which operated behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia, were made up of recent immigrants from countries there and performed "some of the bravest acts of the war."


...Donovan made specific reference to the organization's diversity: "We have come to the end of an unusual experiment.   This experiment was to determine whether a group of Americans constituting a cross section of racial origins, abilities, temperaments and talents could meet and risk an encounter with the long-established and well-trained enemy organizations.   How well that experiment has succeeded is measured by your accomplishments and by the recognition of your achievements."


...Julia McWilliams, who served in OSS and later would become famous as Julia Child, said of Gen. 

..."Inglourious Basterds," the new movie by Quentin Tarantino, who evidently never saw "The Good Shepherd," has an OSS unit made up entirely of Jews whose mission it is to brutally kill Germans behind enemy lines by scalping them, carving swastikas in their foreheads and beating them to death with baseball bats. ...  (There was a unit of Jewish commandos in the British army who went ashore on D-Day and performed valiantly throughout World War II.)


"Inglourious Basterds" loses its pretense as a fantasy when it attaches this fictional group of Jewish commandos to the real OSS, thereby giving even the most knowledgeable viewer the impression that this story is true.


Given the enormous amount of material about the OSS available to the public, including its personnel and operational files and numerous books, there are countless true stories about bravery behind enemy lines that could be told.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Issue #121 Of The Carpetbagger</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-06-04T17:37:18-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/74d346f5b7ee71be83d19b0533d5e405-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/74d346f5b7ee71be83d19b0533d5e405-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[See The Full Issue.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gen. David Petraeus Receives the William J. Donovan Award&#x3c;sup&#x3e;&#x26;reg;&#x3c;/sup&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-06-04T17:37:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/40.html#unique-entry-id-43</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/40.html#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["He has, by the force of his formidable intelect, remarkable leadership abilities, adept political skills and courage, transformed the United States Army and its approach to counterinsurgency.


"Tonight, we honor General Petraeus for all that he has done and all that he will do on behalf of our nation."


In his remarks, Petraeus said, "It has been the greatest of privleges to have been allowed to serve our country in uniform over the past 35 years.   It has been a particular honor to have served with our great young men and women in Iraq for four of these years."


Paying tribute to Gen.   "Wild Bill" Donovan and the "Pioneers of our nation's intelligence community" who think "outside the box," Petraeus said, "America's intelligence professionals and special operators, like their OSS forbears, provide exceptional strategic and tactical intelligence, and conduct demanding special operation...


"Their goal is to ensure that our troopers are never are never engaged in a fair fight."


He also noted that today's intelligence operations professionals are constantly developing new ways of collecting, analylizing, sharing, and fusing intelligence - as well as new ways of conducting demanding special operations missions.


Petraeus said that the "most powerful tool our troopers carries into battle is not his weapon, but his mind - and that is particlarly true of those who today carry on the traditions of the OSS in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."


Dr. Christian J.   Lambertsen, an OSS veteran and a pioneer in underwater warfare, was also honored at the event along with Ross Perot.


Previous recipients of the William J.   Donovan Award include Presidents Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sir William Stephenson, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey, Ralph Bunche and William Webster.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Overseas in World War II</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-03-09T21:10:10-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/39.html#unique-entry-id-42</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/39.html#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If Mr. Chambers had limited or confined his book to the work of OSS&rsquo;s Schools and Training Branch in the United States and to National Park Service sites in Maryland and Virginia, it&rsquo;s possible, though unlikely, that the interest of many readers, including OSS veterans, would wander off.


However, you will discover that he travels to the OSS theaters around the world; he also traces the irregular, ambitious and successful exploits of a number of OSS representatives who gained distinctive reputations in risky circumstances, some of whom we first meet in his book while they attempt to survive classroom lectures, many dangerous field exercises (four men were killed), and goofy psychological assessments at Park Service locations in Virginia and Maryland.  

...I&rsquo;ve no doubt that a majority of the OSS veterans who entered service in the United States has more than a ragtag knowledge about a few of the training sites in Maryland and Virginia, especially at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. 

...Roughly 5,300 veterans in the major OSS branches received some or all of their training at National Park Service locations in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. 


...General John Singlaub, one of our few generals to serve in the frontlines and to be always ahead of his men in combat, in Europe as a Jedburgh; in China and French Indochina, and as commander of all U. S. troops South Korea, gives this assessment of what he learned in his training at the Congressional Country Club and at other Park Service locations: &ldquo;These were individual skills that are perhaps useful but are most important for training the state of mind or attitude, developing an aggressiveness and confidence in one&rsquo;s ability to use weapons. 

...Mr. Chambers observes that &ldquo;Donovan wanted a unified OSS basic course to be attended by all new male OSS personnel, but changes had to be made to bring training into line with the field experience and demands of the operational branches.&rdquo;   Further, he notes that &ldquo;during the big OSS buildup between the summer of 1943 and the fall of 1944, the training camps had operated at breakneck pace as field activities of Donovan&rsquo;s organization expanded along with the U. S. military effort, first in Europe and then in Asia.&rdquo; 

...To OSS veterans, his name will live in infamy: as head of the Bureau of the Budget, he carried out President Truman&rsquo;s order to fire Donovan and to put the OSS out of business two weeks after the end of the war. 

...At the end of the war, and before the OSS was liquidated, Mr. Chambers wrote: &ldquo;Operating like the OSS itself which was created in haste and without American precedent and which was impelled with a tremendous drive for speed, production and results, the Schools and Training Branch sometimes appeared confused and indecisive, as S&T acknowledged. ...  Yet, Schools and Training also admitted that &ldquo;only toward the end of World War II was OSS beginning to approach the kind of training that was really	 adequate for the complex and hazardous operations carried out by OSS personnel.&rdquo;


To see the world of the OSS by focusing on the training that the majority of veterans received at National Park Service sites in the United States as well as at some overseas locations is a novel and highly effective approach. 


...I can think of several instances where civilian operational personnel in SO, Americans such as Virginia Hall in France or, of course, civilian foreign nationals who were recruited in France or Italy from the Resistance, operated as bravely and possibly as effectively as military-trained personnel. 

...I&rsquo;ll add that your book enforces or invigorates the memoirs and splendid careers of  OSS veterans who received some or all of their training at the sites noted in your book, including especially training at Congressional Country Club. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Issue #120 Of The Carpetbagger</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-03-09T15:20:02-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/38.html#unique-entry-id-41</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/38.html#unique-entry-id-41</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Spring 2009 issue of the 801st/492nd BG Newsletter.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An&#x27;s Dangerous Games</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-03-05T08:02:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/37.html#unique-entry-id-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/37.html#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A long-time correspondent for Time and friend to many American reporters covering Vietnam, he was an invaluable source of news and font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese.   At the same time, he was a masterful double agent, a North Vietnamese operative whose secret reports were so admired by Ho Chi Minh that he clapped his hands with glee on receiving them and exclaimed, &ldquo;We are now in the United States&rsquo; war room!&rdquo;   An inspired shape-shifter who kept his cover in place until the day he died, Pham Xuan An ranks as one of the preeminent spies of the twentieth century. ...  And when he set out to write the story of An&rsquo;s remarkable career for The New Yorker, he uncovered fresh revelations almost daily during their freewheeling conversations.   But a good spy is always at work, and it was not until An&rsquo;s death in 2006 that Bass was able to lift the veil from his carefully guarded story and provide this fascinating portrait of a hidden life.&nbsp;   A masterful biography, The Spy Who Loved Us reveals the true motivations of a man who, caught between dueling loyalties in a time of war, &ldquo;lived a lie and always told the truth.&rdquo;


...The Spy Who Loved Us is a fine read and a gripping story; but, most of all, it is an object lesson in why human intelligence and a great spy will always trump the most sophisticated espionage and surveillance technology. 

...&ldquo;This is a chilling account of betrayal of an American army&mdash;and an American press corps&mdash;involved in a guerrilla war in a society about which little was known or understood.&nbsp;&nbsp;   The spy here was in South Vietnam, and his ultimate motives, as Thomas Bass makes clear, were far more complex than those of traditional espionage.&nbsp;   This book, coming now, has another message, too, for me&mdash;have we put ourselves in the same position, once again, in Iraq?&rdquo;


...In doing so he provided us with unique insights into the nature,&nbsp; conflicting sentiments and heartbreak of many Vietnamese who worked with Americans, made friends with them, but in the end&nbsp; loved their land more and sought , as their ancestors had a for a thousand years, to free it from all trespassers.&rdquo;


...&ldquo;The story of Pham Xuan An is the revelation of a remarkable life and a remarkable man. ...  In The Spy Who Loved Us, An is revealed as a man of split loyalties, who managed to maintain his humanity. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New York Assembly Members Sam Hoyt and Mark J.F. Schroeder Honor the Legacy of General William Donovan</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-02-24T15:29:11-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/36.html#unique-entry-id-39</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/36.html#unique-entry-id-39</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[See The Press Release


New York State Assembly member Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo, Grand Island) and Assembly member Mark Schroeder (D-Buffalo) held a commemorative event in Buffalo, New York on February 15, 2009 recognizing the 50th anniversary of Buffalo native General William Donovan's death and commemorating his incredible legacy.   The Assemblymen were joined by numerous veterans, Colonel Patrick J.   Cunningham, and New York State Supreme Court Justice Salvatore Martoche, who read a letter from the OSS Society which thanked the Assemblymen for remembering "one of America's greatest patriots."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS Training in the National Parks</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-12-19T10:10:41-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/35.html#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/35.html#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The National Park Service has posted on its website an extensive report entitled, &ldquo;OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II,&rdquo; prepared for the Park Service by John Whiteclay Chambers II, professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.   The typescript report runs more than 600 pages of text, footnotes and bibliography, plus nearly 90 pages of illustrations.


For a book for a wider audience, Professor Chambers is now preparing an shorter, revised, and updated study for possible publication by Rutgers University Press in 2009. 


The National Park Service report is located on the NPS website.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Valkyrie - An Insider&#x2019;s Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-12-05T07:25:33-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/34.html#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/34.html#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[By Hans Bernd Gisevius


Da Capo Press


When on July 20, 1944, a bomb&mdash;boldly place inside Hitler&rsquo;s headquarters by Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg&mdash;exploded without killing the F&uuml;hrer, the subsequent coup d&rsquo;&eacute;tat against the Third Reich, codenamed Valkyrie, collapsed.   The conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged.


&nbsp;


One of the few survivors of the conspiracy was Hans Bernd Gisevius , who had used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi plot.   He knew well or had met the major figures involved in planning Valkyrie, including General August Beck, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Colonel Hans Oster, and von Stauffenberg.   The conspiracy was widespread, involving a wide circle of former politicians, diplomats, and government officials as well as senior military men.   The anti-Hitler movement, largely motivated by moral outrage than by political expediency, had started as early as 1933 and involved several putsches and assassination attempts.


&nbsp;


Valkyrie, an abridgment of Gisevius&rsquo;s classic insider&rsquo;s account To the Bitter End, is an intimate memoir as riveting as it is exceptional.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS: Greek &#x26; Norwegian OGs</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-11-23T09:35:54-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/33.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/33.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[OSS: Greek & Norwegian OGs, training in Scotland, 1945 with&nbsp;Lt. Roger Hall.&nbsp; 


Greeks on one side, Norwegians on the other.


See More OSS Photos In Our Photo Section...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Brenner Assignment</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-10-28T16:13:17-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/30.html#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/30.html#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich&rsquo;s main supply artery&mdash;the Brenner Pass.    Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops.   Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass, the crucial route through the Alps for the Nazi war machine.   Without the supplies that travel this route, the German war effort in Italy will grind to a halt. 


Using thousands of recently declassified files, personal interviews, and private documents, including a behind-the-lines diary buried in a bottle, military historian Patrick K. O&rsquo;Donnell has written a cinematic World War II adventure story.


The unforgettable cast of characters includes the dashing and daring team leader; the romantic idealist who plans the operation; the seductive Italian countess who is also a double-agent; and the maniacal SS officer who will stop at nothing to kill the team and their partisan collaborators.


The Brenner Assignment is also a World War II story that resonates today, revealing lessons for the war on terror and illustrating the complex nature of insurgency.


Packed with action, suspense, intrigue, and even romance, this exciting true tale of survival and sabotage behind enemy l ines is one of the greatest untold adventure stories of World War II.


www.brennerassignment.com]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>John Taylor of National Archives Dies</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-09-24T16:49:50-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/28.html#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/28.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[''Every time I went back to the archives to see him, I felt I was visiting a mentor,'' said Ms. Chang, who died in 2004. ...  He'd leave a message suggesting a researcher he thought I should get in touch with. 

...In recent years, Mr. Taylor was honored by the Office of Strategic Services Society, whose members worked for the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency; the Japanese Embassy, which thanked him for his assistance to Japanese historians; and the American Jewish Historical Society, which gave him its first distinguished archivist award.   The National Archives named its collection of intelligence and espionage books in his honor, and colleagues said many of the collection's 857 volumes were signed by authors who refer to Mr. Taylor's help.


John Edward Taylor was born in 1921 in Sparkman, Ark., and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1945.   Blind in one eye, he was ineligible for military service and took the Civil Service exam while still in college.


Mr. Taylor's wife of 44 years, the former Dolly Haney, died in 1995, said his niece, Ms. Walsworth.   A brother, James, also died before him.   He is also survived by a nephew, James E. Taylor Jr., of San Ramone, Calif.


In an oral history interview for the National Archives, Mr. Taylor described his arrival at the job.


''I remember walking from the front door through the stacks to 8W,'' he said, referring to an area of the sprawling collection of government documents, ''and what I noticed was the smell of the records.''


''After I had been there for a few days, or a few weeks, I started to open the boxes,'' he added.   ''I was fascinated, and I have been fascinated ever since.'']]></content:encoded></item><item><title>American Intelligence in War-time London: The Story of the OSS</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-09-17T00:28:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/27.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/27.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[These chapters present an enormously detailed account of the operations of the London office against the background of start-up turmoil within the neophyte intelligence agency, particularly with the centralization demands of Washington headquarters, the inter-branch rivalries both in Washington and the London outpost; and the ambivalence in the &ldquo;competitive cooperation&rdquo; with British organizations 


...The author gives unstinting praise to Bill Casey&rsquo;s SI efforts in the penetration of Germany, modest commendation for the JEDBURGH (SO and British SOE) and SUSSEX (SI and British SIS) operations in the OVERLORD invasion, but other OSS efforts are derided as na&iuml;ve, confused, or just ineffective in the war effort. 


...According to the treatise, R&A, &ldquo;in contradiction to its postwar reputation as a unique collection of scholarly operatives mobilized by an ingenious William Donovan&rdquo;. . . &ldquo;spent its existence in a desperate, if largely futile, struggle to secure a me aningful role.&rdquo;&nbsp;   Elsewhere, &ldquo;R&A developed into a highly skilled irrelevancy&rdquo;; throughout the war it kept trying to establish its basic mission &ndash; what customers it was to serve and with what kind of materials.   At one point it goes to this extreme: The R&A/EOU [Enemy Objectives Unit] &ldquo;illustrates the perversion of the intelligence cycle. . .&nbsp; [its] subordination of disinterested analysis and dissemination to the biased needs of its bloated collective ego.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 


...Donovan is depicted as a brilliant courageous leader but &ldquo;often erratic and less than deft in dealing with the ferocious intricacies of the Washington and London power centers.&rdquo; ...  Finally: &ldquo;Donovan&rsquo;s shortcomings were compounded by his erratic behavior and all of these factors contributed by 1945 to a widespread antipathy for Donovan personally which gravely undermined his attempts at securing OSS as the postwar intelligence bureaucracy.&rdquo; 


...One Phillips was a rather shady intelligence operative who showed up in the early days of the London office with vague connections to Washington intelligence agencies. ...  The other William Phillips was no less than the very distinguished U.S. Ambassador whom Donovan sent to be the second director of OSS/London, succeeding W. 

...Surprisingly, the conclusions drawn in the final chapter of the treatise present a much more balanced picture, quite unlike the chapter evaluations, and give a constructive and interesting overall assessment, part of which is worth repeating:


...It was instead moulded through the forging of an Anglo-American intelligence partnership that paved the way for realizing a concrete capacity for professional American intelligence. ...  The various OSS branches were instead accepted by their British counterparts as partners in joint endeavo rs, in the course of which OSS/London achieved an accelerated capability which matched, and in some cases surpassed, that of the British services. ...  MO&rsquo;s efforts were limited by the problematic nature of its work, whereas R&A served mainly as an underachieving disappointment that hinted at the possibilities of applying scholarly methods to intelligence analysis without matching those already attained by Britain.&nbsp; ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS Invasion of Martha&#x27;s Vineyard</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-08-28T08:40:31-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/26.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/26.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Legend has it that&nbsp;General Donovan brought a silenced 22-caliber pistol developed by OSS&nbsp;into the Oval Office to show President Roosevelt, who was on the phone at the time. ...  After hanging up, President Roosevelt told General Donovan that he was the only Republican allowed into the Oval Office with a gun.


...A security officer examining Hemingway's equipment prior to his parachute jump in Europe asked him about it. 

...Major Serge Obolensky led a&nbsp;team of OSS Operational Group trainees - forerunners of&nbsp;today's U.S.&nbsp;  Special Forces -&nbsp;in an amphibious training raid in which they were to simulate an attack behind enemy lines at night. 

...He gained renown when, as the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper at age 53, he led a daring parachute drop into Sardinia, carrying General Eisenhower's letters and successfully talking the Italians into surrendering.


Major Obolensky's and his group's orders were to arrive on the Vineyard&nbsp;by landing craft, place marks on various buildings as proof of their visit in lieu of actual explosives, and&nbsp;then withdraw - all undetected.


The OSS team came across the Vineyard Sound&nbsp;from Camp Edwards on Cape Cod, dressed in camouflage and wearing black makeup. ...  After marking the building as ordered, they returned to their boats,&nbsp;released the driver, and&nbsp;returned to Cape Cod. 

...When he finally got untied late that night, he went racing over to the police and said a huge army of goons had taken over Martha's Vineyard.   He said that black men all covered with grease had climbed out of the ocean and attacked him.   The authorities there had one immediate reaction: they pulled all panic switches, sirens blew, searchlights were turned on, and telephone calls went to Washington, to the army, air force, navy, marines. 

...Training exercises such as the one that took place on Martha's Vineyard would prove critical to the success of OSS operations overseas.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Documents detailing early spy network released</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-13T19:29:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/25.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/25.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Other notables identified in the files include John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt, and Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the band The Police.


The release of the OSS personnel files uncloaks one of the last secrets from the short-lived wartime intelligence agency, which for the most part later was folded into the CIA after President Truman disbanded it in 1945.


"I think it's terrific," said Elizabeth McIntosh, 93, a former OSS agent now living in Woodbridge, Va.   "They've finally, after all these years, they've gotten the names out.   All of these people had been told never to mention they were with the OSS."


...But former CIA Director William Casey, himself an OSS veteran, cleared the way for transfer of millions of OSS documents to the National Archives when he took over the agency in 1981. 

...Information about OSS involvement was so guarded that relatives often couldn't confirm a family member's work with the group.


Walter Mess, who handled covert OSS operations in Poland and North Africa, said he kept quiet for more than 50 years, only recently telling his wife of 62 years about his OSS activity.


"I was told to keep my mouth shut," said Mess, now 93 and living in Falls Church, Va.


The files will offer new information even for those most familiar with the agency.   Charles Pinck, president of the OSS Society created by former OSS agents and their relatives, said the nearly 24,000 employees included in the archives far exceeds previous estimates of 13,000.


The newly released documents will clarify these and other issues, said William Cunliffe, an archivist who has worked extensively with the OSS records at the National Archives.


"We're saying the OSS was a lot bigger than they were saying," Cunliffe said]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>National Archives to Open Official Personnel Files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-08T09:22:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/24.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/24.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The National Archives will open more than 35,000 official personnel files of men and women who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which was the U.S. wartime intelligence agency during World War II.   The files cover civilian and military personnel who served and were later transferred, discharged, reassigned, or died while in service prior to 1947.   These records are available for research in the textual research room at the National Archives facility in College Park.


On the day of the opening, the press office will distribute CDs that include selected files of some of the notable people who served in the OSS, including former CIA directors Allen Dulles and William Casey, famed chef Julia Child, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Arab/Israeli peace negotiator and civil rights advocate Ralph Bunche, and Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden.


The 750,000 pages include initial applications to join the OSS; preliminary training and subsequent work assignments; pay, leave and travel documents; evaluations, basic medical information; and awards, decorations and discharge papers.   Occasionally, photographs are included in the application file.   Senior officials, officers and men engaged in special combat actions, such as Detachment 101, Jedburghs, X-2, espionage, and major intelligence missions may have citations summarizing those efforts in the files.


Name searches for individuals who served in the OSS can be found online in the Archival Research Catalogue listing for the OSS Personnel Files posted as ARC # 1593270 at http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>William Donovan and Special Operations</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Bob Bergin</category><dc:date>2008-08-01T08:23:07-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/22.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/22.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Special operations conducted by the OSS during World War II were the foundation on which the U.S. Special Forces were built, and the basis for the special operations conducted by U.S. forces today. &nbsp;  The Special Operations (SO) Branch was one of two major divisions created by William Donovan when he organized the OSS.&nbsp;   Donovan&rsquo;s thinking on the role and the nature of special operations is as relevant today as it was in the early days of World War II.


A July 30, 2008&nbsp;Washington Post article &ldquo;Strategy against Al-Qaeda Faulted&rdquo; cites a major new Rand Corporation study critical of the course the U.S. is following in what has become known as the &ldquo;war on terrorism&rdquo;.&nbsp;   The study advocates that terrorists should be described as criminals, not warriors, and argues that the fight against terrorists is better waged by law enforcement agencies than armies. &nbsp;  According to the Post, the authors of the study say that &ldquo;when military forces are needed, the emphasis should be on local troops, which understand the terrain and culture and tend to have greater legitimacy.&nbsp; 

...Donovan&rsquo;s thinking was most recently expressed by Major General John K. Singlaub in an interview published in the November issue of WWII History.&nbsp;   Singlaub was a young OSS officer when he parachuted into German-occupied France in 1944 to organize, train and lead a French Resistance unit.&nbsp; 

...Singlaub commented on William Donovan&rsquo;s thinking about special operations even before the U.S. became directly involved in World War II:&nbsp; &ldquo;President Roosevelt had authorized William &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Donovan, who later conceived and organized the OSS, to go to Great Britain in 1940 to look into things like espionage that we didn&rsquo;t know very much about.&nbsp; 

...Later in the same interview, when asked what most struck him as he looked back over a long and eventful career, Singlaub said:&nbsp; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear that Donovan really understood that Special Operations were to be conducted as unconventional warfare.&nbsp;   We were given a mission and sent off to it with resources we had, whether we were in occupied France, China, or Vietnam.&nbsp; ...  The emphasis now seems to be on direct action &ndash; to launch an attack with our own highly trained people to kill the enemy or kick down doors.   There seems to be too much emphasis on the direct action part of special operations &ndash; rather than keeping our own participation low, and training the indigenous people to do the job.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>An OSS memorial was installed at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville&#x2c; NC on July 28&#x2c; 2008.  A dedication ceremony will be held later this year.</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-01T08:23:18-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>UN Logo Designer Celebrates His Centennial</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-07-30T14:11:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/21.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/21.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[To fix this problem, he drew the globe as an azimuthally equidistant projection so that all the countries of the world could fit into the circle. 

...The lapel pin and accompanying Charter displayed a globe projected in a way that showed all the continents surrounded by olive branches to represent peace. 

..."We had been using maps all throughout the war and we picked up on that projection," McLaughlin said.   "The idea that we had was to represent one world through this projection."


..."The map was turned a quarter to the left so the east and west were in balance," whereas the logo on the Charter had North America on the centerline and the rest of the world upside down.


...Although McLaughlin went on to be a successful architect and worked on many notable projects, such as the designing of the flagship Tiffany and Co. store in Manhattan, this will remain his most outstanding achievement.


"It's the one thing I'm known for," he said. 

...About 150 people gathered to celebrate the career, life, and 100th birthday of McLaughlin yesterday at the town hall in his hometown of Garrett Park, Maryland, including the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area.


The chapter, who wrote McLaughlin a special letter commending him for his contribution and wishing him well, delivered the letter to him personally at the party.


"We thought it was a meaningful thing to do, and it seemed a very natural thing for us to do," said Richard Griffis, the chapter's vice president for programs. 

..."I'm really dazzled by the whole thing, by the whole idea [that my design is seen all around the world]" he said. ...  I'm very proud of it &hellip; I think the United Nations is the only answer for world peace."


...Ms. Lyons is a junior at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and a UNA-USA Publications intern.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Roger Hall; Memoirist of World War II Espionage</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-07-23T06:44:40-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/20.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/20.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["There were no parameters, and you did what the hell you wanted, up to legal and military limits," he told The Washington Post in 2002. 

...Mr. Hall learned guerrilla warfare at Congressional Country Club, which the OSS had taken over for training, and infiltrated a Philadelphia circuit breaker plant on a test run.   He not only got a job at the plant, but the handsome trainee also wangled a date with a woman in the personnel office who happened to be the company vice president's daughter.


His made-up identity included a falsehood about being wounded while parachuting into Sicily, and the vice president was so taken with his bravery that he invited Mr. Hall to speak at a company war bond rally. 

...Mr. Hall spent much of the war in Great Britain, training and working alongside a motley gang of paratroopers: new recruits, war-hardened Poles and the occasional rising star, such as future CIA director William E. Colby. 

...Mr. Hall said the German colonel who surrendered to him pulled out a ceremonial dagger and told Mr. Hall that his men were like blades -- temporarily sheathed.


..."My father did not feel I was mature enough to go to college," he told The Post, explaining the year at Severn. 

...He wrote for the yearbook and singled out his own fine performance in an all-male revue perceptively titled "That's No Lady."


...The job ended because the Colts' management did not appreciate his reaction to a referee's call against the team on what could have been its winning field goal.


...In the early 1970s, he had a stint, his favorite job, as cartoon editor for the old True magazine in New York.


He also was the host of radio shows, including one called "You Can't Fight Roger Hall," and wrote two novels, "All My Pretty Ones" (1959), a humorous book based on his relationship with a fashion model, and "19" (1970), a spy story.


...Mr. Hall always threatened to write new books, including a collection of poetry he wanted to call "Bayonet the Survivors and Other Love Poems."


...Adam Bernstein wrote the introduction to "You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger" when it was reissued in 2004 by the Naval Institute Press.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>McCain Advocates a New Go-Get-&#x27;Em Spy Agency</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-07-08T06:59:19-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/19.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/19.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[How would a new OSS avoid overlap with all those other agencies, which currently pursue many of the same tasks McCain lays out? ...  And how much oversight would be needed to prevent abuses by a brand-new organization with such a sweeping mandate to spy and conduct covert action?


Many veterans of the CIA also bristle at McCain's suggestion that the CIA is risk averse and operates "almost entirely" out of U.S. Embassies.   The CIA has struggled to improve its ability to send personnel overseas on what it calls "nonofficial cover," where CIA officers pose as businessmen or other professionals to steal secrets without the protection of a diplomatic passport. 

...I don't think so," fumes Burton Gerber, who served in the CIA's Clandestine Service for 39 years and was CIA chief of station in Sofia, Belgrade, and Moscow. 

..."A modern-day OSS could draw together unconventional-warfare, civil-affairs, paramilitary and psychological-warfare specialists from the military together with covert-action operators from our intelligence agencies and experts in anthropology, advertising, foreign cultures, and numerous other disciplines from inside and outside government," he says.


An agency that potentially sprawls across so many areas would require plenty of its own bureaucracy to establish, manage, and support all those missions.


...It comes down to fighting about who is really in charge, which is quite stupid," says Robert Grenier, a former CIA chief of station in Pakistan who is now a managing director at the risk management firm Kroll Inc.   "To suggest that we could eliminate that by creating a new organization to pull all those elements together is completely unrealistic and in the short term would be enormously destructive."


The mention of a new organization that would undertake covert action also raises the ugly specter of the CIA's abuses in the 1960s and 1970s. 

...The CIA used to have broader powers to conduct missions to topple governments (with doomed operations like the Bay of Pigs), assassinate foreign targets, and even eavesdrop illegally on Americans.   After some of its worst abuses were exposed in the 1970s (along with embarrassing episodes like the CIA's attempt to hire a mobster to assassinate Castro and its failed plot to poison the toothbrush of a Congolese rebel leader), a new, more rigorous oversight regime was put in place, and assassinations were forbidden.


In recent years, the CIA has been authorized to capture&mdash;or kill&mdash;some of the most high-value terrorist targets, but these orders now require a presidential sign-off.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Georgetown University Honors Richard Helms</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-06-04T17:53:34-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/18.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/18.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For example, at a symposium held at the CIA not many years ago, all of guests received in the mail a page titled "Security Information."   We were told: &ldquo;Firearms, explosives, weapons, computers, computer diskettes, cellular phones, tape recorders, and chemicals such as Mace are prohibited on the compound.&rdquo; ...  We were also told to send a check for $15, made out to Lundy&rsquo;s, to cover the cost of breakfast and lunch.   The security advice from Georgetown was simple: &ldquo;You must have a photo ID with you when you check in.   Please be advised for security reasons, NO BAGS (with the exception of small, clutch-sized purses), COMPUTERS OR BRIEF CASES are permitted in Gaston Hall. ...  I had a brown, canvas briefcase, with a book, half a tuna fish sandwich, a soft drink I took from the airplane that morning, and a notebook. 

...Her role was to sing The Man I Love over the loud speakers as each of the Honorables walked on stage and found their seats.   Henry A. Kissenger, William Hood, Albert Whelon and Brent Scowcroft led the way in the first half of the program. 

...&ldquo;When the SALT negotiations began, I knew more about the Soviet&rsquo;s weapons than Breznev did, thanks to a briefing by the CIA.&rdquo; 

...Hayden batted clean-up to lead the second half of the symposium by noting that &ldquo;Richard Helms was the consummate intelligence professional.&rdquo; 

...OSS veterans whom I saw -- I can&rsquo;t believe I didn&rsquo;t&nbsp;overlook a few of them -- were William Hood, Major&nbsp;General John K. Singlaub (Ret.), Fisher Howe, Walter Mess, Ambassador Hugh Montgomery, Colonel&nbsp;William H. 

...Mrs. Helms and her son donated Richard Helms&rsquo; papers and pertinent memorabilia to the Special Collections&nbsp;Division of the Georgetown University Library. ...  In the historical pamphlet given to each guest at the symposium, is a DVD containing over 800 documents and 4,100 pages of formerly classified material. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Missing Thai Silk King:&#xd;A Niece&#x2019;s Search for Jim Thompson&#xd;</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-05-27T00:24:47-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/17.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/17.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Was he on a secret mission for Thai royalty? ...  Was he killed by employees of his Thai Silk Company?   Did he simply get lost in the jungle while out for a late-afternoon walk? ...  Was he on a secret mission to persuade Chinese Communists to stop supporting the Viet Cong?


Mrs. Galleher and her husband Earl made two visits to the Far East to try to unravel the mystery of her step-uncle&rsquo;s disappearance. ...  Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan could not have done a better job.   During their search, they interviewed an international line-up of sources of information, from ambassadors, generals, intelligence operatives, high government officials in many countries, and U. S. congressman to inconspicuous natives in Asian nations. 

...I suspect Mrs. Galleher might have been on a promising  track when, two pages from the end of her book, she states: &ldquo;Whatever his reasons, I believe Jim headed for China after he disappeared.&rdquo;   How did she reach this assumption and from whose office did it originate? 


...Reviewers of mystery books properly do not tell readers cogent clues or answers to the mystery. 

...Mrs. Galleher&rsquo;s book is absorbing, with stretches of fine writing.   The disappearance of James Harrison Wilson Thompson is compensated &ndash; if this is the right word &ndash; by the appearance of his niece&rsquo;s book.   An adroit scriptwriter and other highly competent professionals in Hollywood could produce a good movie about Mrs. Galleher&rsquo;s adventures in the Far East.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OSS--Of Swashbuckling Sages</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-04-16T06:53:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/16.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/16.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Nation, April 21, 2007


Robert Dreyfuss, in "Hothead McCain" [March 24], describes the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor of the CIA, as a "rambunctious, often out-of-control World War II-era covert-ops team."   Led by the legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan, the OSS was a visionary, daring, innovative, unorthodox, effective intelligence organization.   It abetted Allied victories in North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.   Donovan recruited an array of "glorious amateurs," as he called them, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ralph Bunche, Arthur Goldberg, Julia Child, John Ford [and Nation puzzle setter Frank W.   Lewis--Ed.].   Many OSS personnel--including my father--risked their lives volunteering for missions behind enemy lines.


Creating a new intelligence service patterned after the OSS is an intriguing notion that deserves serious consideration, not Dreyfuss's casual dismissal.


Charles Pinck, president


The OSS Society]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-04-11T06:42:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/15.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/15.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The British traitor Kim Philby was the Washington liaison between the Office of Policy Coordination and MI6; he gave the information to the Soviets and all of our agents were killed by Hoxha&rsquo;s men. 

...Do we know beyond a doubt that he was responsible for the overthrow of Mohammad Mossedagh in Iran; that he was responsible for the recruitment of former members of the Nazi Party to help us in covert operations against the Soviet Union?   Do we know for certain that he and Allen Dulles tried to upend American democracy by creating an imposing number of fronts and by persuading influential American newspaper publishers, editors and journalists to feed information to the CIA and to prevent damaging information from being printed in their publications?  ...  Do we know that his office was responsible for recruiting a variety of academic departments to support the training of foreign nationals and, through varied fronts, to entice students, labor unions and religious organizations, including the International Catholic Youth Federation and the Young Women&rsquo;s Christian Association (for heaven&rsquo;s sake), museum directors, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (for gosh sakes), the American Society of African Culture, and a host of other organizations? 

...Mr. Wilford quotes from a biography of Munzenberg titled The Red Millionaire: &ldquo;Out of these early efforts grew the so-called Munzenberg trust, a vast media of newspapers, publishing houses, movie houses, and theaters which, &lsquo;on paper at least,&rsquo; stretched from Berlin &lsquo;to Paris to London to New York to Hollywood to Shanghai to Delhi.&rdquo;  

...We can follow it for fun as well as our asking the question: Was everyone in the CIA or used, without their knowledge, by the CIA? ...  Some persons mentioned are: Vladimir Nabokov, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, F. O. Matthiessen, John Crowe Ransom, Georgia O&rsquo;Keefe, George Orwell, Jackson Pollack, Elmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein, John Wayne, Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, De Witt Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Clement Greenberg, Lionel Hampton, James Cagney, Aaron Copeland, Isaiah Berlin, and many others. 

...Mr. Wisner recruited more than 450 journalists and writers on our leading newspapers, magazines, and left-leaning periodicals to provide the CIA with information &ndash; you can call it spying in many instances &ndash; about people and organizations in the United States and in other nations; and, in addition, co-opting them to go easy on writing and publishing incriminating articles about the CIA&rsquo;s operations. 

...We learn this about Dulles: &ldquo;The eve of World War II found Dulles as genial and raffish as ever (qualities that apparently made him irresistible to women &ndash; his sexual conquests, in addition to his long-suffering wife Clover, included the queen (sic) of Greece, a daughter of Toscanini, and Clare Booth Luce) but drifting professionally.&rdquo;  

...All I do know is that he had a few outstanding persons who worked closely with him and achieved well-deserved prominence in our society after they left the CIA. 

...I. A., the British Left, and the Cold War (2003); and is the editor, with Helen Laville, of The U. S. Government, Citizen Groups, and the Cold War: The State-Private Network (2006). ...  Donovan&rsquo;s contribution in his new book &ndash; well, that&rsquo;s to be expected; in three books by British historians that I&rsquo;ve read in the past few months, the writers slam General Donovan and his career in intelligence.  

...The interest and outcry against our own intelligence system that began with the expose in Ramparts magazine in 1966 of the CIA and its Mighty Wurlitzer surpasses our interest in, and our outcry against, foreign intelligence operation. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title> In The Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender And The Battle for Postwar Asia</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-03-25T07:07:29-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/14.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/14.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After the American experiences in Iraq it is unnecessary to explain that military occupations that follow on the areas of mainland Asia that had formed part of Japan&rsquo;s empire.&rdquo;


MY COMMENT: Our first responsibility in World War II in Asia, as it was in all theaters, was to win the war, to defeat our enemies, to save as many lives as possible, and to get home as soon as we could. ...  Were these wars generated by our failure in not providing a large army to sustain the Nationalist Chinese in their continuing war against the Chinese Communists, following the Japanese surrender and by our not building and sustaining an omnipotent military occupation in China, Indochina and Korea after Japan surrendered? ...  If I understand Mr. Spector correctly, and maybe I don&rsquo;t, I wonder about his statement: &ldquo;After the American experiences in Iraq it is unnecessary to explain that military occupations that follow on the areas of mainland Asia that had formed part of Japan&rsquo;s empire.&rdquo;


...In 1942, President Roosevelt wrote to his son, Elliott, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t think for a moment that Americans would be dying in the Pacific tonight if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the short-sighted greed of the French and the British and the Dutch.&rdquo;  

...It&rsquo;s interesting to note that a United States Congressman from Illinois published an article in H.L. Mencken&rsquo;s magazine a year or two later in which he predicted that if we didn&rsquo;t force the Japanese out of China, there would soon be a major war in China. 

...Most soldiers I knew were generally ahead of most of their leaders in China, and Mr. Spector is absolutely right in saying they lived with the consequences of the deficiencies of their leaders in London and Washington. 

...&ldquo;On his first visit to Yenan, Hurley, resplendent in major general&rsquo;s uniform with full medals, had greeted Mao-tung and other Communist leaders with a loud Choctaw war  whoop as he disembarked from his plane....&rsquo;

...Ho said that he could not understand why the principle of self-determination set forth in the Atlantic Charter and other Allied declarations should not apply to Vietnam and why the United States remained passive while the French and British re-erected the old Colonial system.  

...Donovan, a Wall Street lawyer, Republican political operator, and hero of World War I, OSS was conceived as a single agency that would coordinate the collection and analysis of foreign intelligence and conduct special operations such  as commando raids and disinformation campaigns and work with partisan and guerrilla groups behind enemy lines.   Older organizations like the Office of Naval Intelligence, the FBI, and the Army&rsquo;s Military Intelligence Service viewed Donovan&rsquo;s organization of former college professors, gangsters, corporate lawyers, and European emigres with suspicion.The two Pacific Commanders, General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, barred Donovan&rsquo;s organization from their theaters. 

...General Chennault, the head of our 14th Air Force in China, and before our entry into World War II, the head of the Flying Tigers, observed after the war: &ldquo;I always found the Chinese friendly and cooperative.  

...To add to this bouillabaisse of history, Mao Ze-dong, who began his professional life as a librarian and ended it as the killer of 60 million of his own people, learned his craft of killing during the Second World War. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Endgame&#x2c; 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-02-12T19:55:10-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Some notable events at that time, as well as events before the war are viewed through the eyes of individuals who lived through them as prisoners, reporters, soldiers, intelligence agents and relief workers in Germany, Poland, Russia, Italy and France and in other nations. ...  Robert Ellis, a member of the Tenth Mountain Division who fought as an infantryman in the Appennines; Bryan  Samain, who fought as a commando from Normandy to the Baltic Sea and who served also as an intelligence operative; Geoffrey Cox, a frontline, British intelligence officer in Italy; Leonard Linton, who was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division; Geoffrey Cox, who fought with the New Zealand Second Division in Italy; Robert Reid, a BBC war correspondent who provided some of the most informative and depressing public accounts of Nazi behavior; Francesca Wilson, an Englishwoman who was a relief worker at a displaced persons camp in Bavaria and who visited several concentration camps at the end of the war; and others.   


As an UNNRA representative, Ms Wilson went to Fohrenwald, built originally as a model Nazi workers village in Bavaria, where her job was to supervise the schools for  eight hundred children whose languages included Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Serb, Polish and German. 

...Fey von Hassell was a political prisoner, a Sippenhafte, whose fate was to be shuffled with thousands of other political prisoners from concentration camp to concentration camp. ...  The Third Reich used a variety of ways to kill upwards of a quarter of a million of these people; they burned some in barns; they machine-gunned others; they shot them when they stopped to tie their shoelaces &ndash; if they weren&rsquo;t barefoot; they starved them; many froze to death; guards shot the exhausted. 

...Heinrich Himmler, on March 21, 1933, just two months after Hitler came to power, announced that Dachau had been  selected as the location of a &ldquo;detention camp for the enemies of National Socialism. 

...I&rsquo;ll observe that Mr. Reid&rsquo;s wartime reports &ndash; and there are many of them in this book &ndash; are far superior to Edward R. 

...And now Mr. Reid: &ldquo;There is a trail of death one hundred and twenty-five miles long across Germany &ndash; not the death of soldiers killed in combat but the murder of those luckless inmates of the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Flossenburg who were forced by their Nazi jailers to take to the road when the Americans approached both camps.&rdquo;   Roughly twenty-five hundred out of five thousand prisoners from Buchenwald had been killed by the time they arrived at Flossenburg concentration camp near the Czech border. 

...After I finished reading Endgame, 1945 I made a walkthrough of it with my coach of history, Edward Hallett Carr, to ascertain my high opinion of Mr. Stafford&rsquo;s book. ...  Based on these guideposts of Mr. Carr, I have no doubt that Mr. Stafford has written an outstanding book and that his previous books reinforced his capabilities to write this one. 

...Formerly the director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Stafford is now the project director at the Center for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh.   Among his previous books are Camp X: OSS, &ldquo;Intrepid,&rdquo; and the Allies&rsquo; North American Training Camp for Secret Agents, 1941-1945; Britain and European Resistance 1940-45;  Ten Days to D-Day; and Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dragon&#x2019;s War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China 1937-1947</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-02-07T21:41:55-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed being challenged by his book, mainly because I&rsquo;m one of those skeptical experts who feels that he knows what may have taken place in China and I&rsquo;m cynical enough to doubt almost all authorities.   Even though I believe I ventured into as many points of the compass in China, as all but a few other Americans, from French Indochina to north of the Great Wall, and from the mountains in the west to the South China Sea in the east, and had many singular adventures, I still quote Pearl Buck whenever I&rsquo;m invited to talk about China. 

...His overriding conclusion based on his interpretation of historical records --I choose to let him state this in his own words &ndash; is: &ldquo;In essence, this book attempts to illustrate how these foreign operations served to challenge the authority and legitimacy of the Chinese Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek to successfully handle and control foreign operations during World War II greatly contributed to its own demise four years after the war ended.&rdquo;  ...  Although the British and the French had only one goal in their Chinese efforts: to secure their postwar, overseas empires, and they, in fact, pursued their own selfish goals in Nationalist China and Asia throughout the war, the United States provided substantial help in many sectors. ...  But it&rsquo;s sensible to recognize that, despite so many lamentably poor diplomatic and military American leaders making a miserable hash of our joint work with the Chinese, we still made a noble effort.   And, in its mysterious way, so did the Nationalist Chinese who fought from 1931 to 1945, and after the end of the Second World War, from 1945 to 1949, in fighting the Chinese Communists who were supported by the USSR. 

...In his research, Mr. Yu adds President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morganthau, to the list of those leaders who, either by omission or commission, succeeded in shortchanging the Nationalists by making promises of funds and materiel they never kept. ...  We might recognize the accuracy of General Chennault&rsquo;s observation after the war, quoted by Mr. Yu: &ldquo;I always found the Chinese friendly  and cooperative. 

...To add to the ingredients of the cockeyed world of Chiang Kai-shek, we should not overlook his own involvement with Moscow.   As a member of the &ldquo;fledgling&rdquo; (Yu&rsquo;s adjective) Chinese Communist Party, Chiang traveled to Moscow to gain Russia&rsquo;s political and military help. ...  In 1927, with Lenin dead as well as the founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party,Sun Yat-sen, Chiang went on a mission to purge and kill Chinese Communists. ...  To add to this bouillabaisse of history, Mao Zedong, who began his professional life as a librarian and ended it as the killer of 60,000,000 of his own people, learned his craft of killing during the Second World War.


...Without being tied up in China, the great majority of Japanese troops would probably have been sent to fight us in the Pacific. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Day in the Life of a Real Spy -- New Book Reveals Author&#x27;s Extensive Experiences as An Intelligence Agent During WWII</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-02-02T09:51:09-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I Was Trained To Be A Spy follows the story of an American-born boy who grew up in a small village on the Greek island of Crete.   During his final years in high school, he is present during the German invasion of his island as WWII began.   At the age of eighteen, he joined a resistance group and supplied crucial information to the SOE, the arm of the English Intelligence Service. ...  There, Doundoulakis and his brother were asked to join the English Intelligence Service, only to pursue the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) which was the newly formed American intelligence counterpart.   As such, they were enlisted into the U.S. Army and attached to the OSS, where the author was trained for intelligence as well as other combat skills.   After being oriented into a highly-skilled "spy," Doundoulakis was sent back to Greece along with a Greek naval intelligence officer, and later set up a communications cell with a wireless radio he smuggled in, hidden inside a can of olive oil!


Filled with historical references, I Was Trained To Become A Spy is a detailed and lively account of one young man's spy training that truly brings to life the daily routines and mentality of a real spy. ...  Highly-recommended to history enthusiasts, military personnel and fans of espionage, I Was Trained To Be A Spy is now available for ordering online at Xlibris.com and at your local bookstore.


...At the age of two years old, his family returned to Crete, Greece, and there they lived uneventfully until the German elite paratroopers invaded Crete in 1941.   After his two-year involvement with the Cretan Resistance and English intelligence Service, he and his brother, George, a leader in the Resistance, escaped to Cairo, Egypt with the help of an English torpedo boat, to avoid capture by the Gestapo.   He enlisted in the American army and was trained as a spy in Cairo, by the newly created OSS, Office of Strategic Services and also by the English Intelligence Service, and was sent as a spy to Salonica, the second largest city in Greece, on a dangerous undergound mission.   He was the only American soldier in that city for a period of nine months, sending daily messages to OSS headquarters in Cairo on German movements.   With the information sent by these cryptic messages, many Axis ships were sunk, trains bombed, and thousands of Germans were killed. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A North Africa Story: The Anthropologist as OSS Agent 1941-1943</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-01-30T17:13:39-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ I don&rsquo;t mean to be so ignorant and opinionated, which I frequently am, to evade the fact that many historians of war have written, and continue to write, supremely good books. ...  However, there&rsquo;s no sidestepping the assumption that the most rewarding illuminations are in books written by men and women who have risked their lives in operations against their enemies.


Carlton S. Coon, a noted anthropologist who studied under Earnest Hooton, wrote a masterful book about his OSS experiences in North Africa, Corsica and Italy. ...  If there were an OSS Hall of Fame Carlton Coon and Gordon Browne, deserve a niche in it. 

...&ldquo;By all accounts, not only this one, life in the OSS appears to have had a character all its own.   Coon describes it by saying, &lsquo;I never took an oath for the COI or OSS. 

...Not remarkable for any secret it discloses, it is noteworthy for the sense of immediacy it conveys, for its picture of people doing extraordinary things in an ordinary manner, and as a rare glimpse into an agent&rsquo;s mind while he is on the job, or at any rate what he feels he can set down about it.&rdquo;


...Unlike the majority of OSS representative, he knew as much as any American about the North African territories the history, the people, and the languages -- in which he was engaged.     He was one of General Donovan&rsquo;s &ldquo;glorious amateurs&rdquo; when it came to intelligence and covert operations. ...  But he was a consummate professional when it came to understand the land and the cultures of natives.   


Mr. Coon and Mr. Browne became intelligence agents in Operation Torch, our code name for the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa. ...  They helped to sort out and identify fascists and traitors in Vichy&rsquo;s line-up from those Frenchmen determined to help to fight the Germans and Italians.


If you want to read a historic overview of Operation Torch to complement Mr. Coon&rsquo;s adventures, I suggest that you also read FDR&rsquo;s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa, by Hal Vaughan.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Prisoners and/of War</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2005-12-01T16:05:08-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/4.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/4.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Harris, an American historian, whose book, Factories od Death: Japanese Secret Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up, recounts his twenty years of research into Japanese biological warfare in Manchuria and occupied China. 

...An Indian prisoner of war in New Guinea said at a war crimes trial, &ldquo;At this stage the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the Japanese. 

...The notion that Germany was any less brutal than Japan in its treatment of prisoners is dispelled by the fact that of about 2,800,000 out of a total of 7,800,000 Soviet prisoners died in Germany.


...This number increased by the end of the war and when prisoners held by Australia and New Zealand are added to it, the number increased to more than 7,000. 

...The Japanese Government&rsquo;s protest was sent to London where the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office warned that if Japanese prisoners were killed in Commonwealth camps, then the lives of British and Commonwealth prisoners in Japanese POW camps would be at great risk of retaliatory actions. 

...When you consider the atrocities committed by Japanese to Allied prisoners -- and the humiliating indignities, such as measuring penises &ndash; it&rsquo;s remarkable that many Japanese captors were not killed after the Japanese surrender. 

...began gaining victories and with them a small number of prisoners, we asked our British and Commonwealth Allies if they would hold the soldiers whom we captured.  ...  When they picked up more than 200 American survivors, they found out that the two transports on which the survivors were from, carried a total of 2,200 Allied prisoners. 

...The Charter stated: &ldquo;The American member of a military tribunal trying persons accused with violations of the laws of war is not bound by the specific requirements of the United States Constitution and the Articles of War since the Supreme Court has decided that neither constitutional safeguards nor Articles of War apply in such proceedings (ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1; In re Yamashita, February 4, 1946).


...A just and fair accounting must recognize that not all Japanese neither acted with any measure of cruelty toward their enemies nor did they have any feeling but repulsion toward their government&rsquo;s actions during the war.   When I was in China, there were several incidents that I heard about in which Japanese soldiers, sickened by the atrocities of their colleagues, managed to load trucks with armament of various sorts and deliver them to Chinese forces. ...  There were Japanese soldiers, high officials, diplomats and civilians who acted humanely, at great risk to themselves and their families at home in pursuing what they knew to be righteous conduct. 

...The fact that a member of the Royal family was repelled by Japanese conduct and was willing to take his objection to the Emperor suggests that a few persons, at least, in the highest reaches of society were opposed to their nation&rsquo;s savage behaviour.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>To Your Stealth: Honoring the OSS</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-06-30T16:00:26-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/1.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/1.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As an adult, Charles Pinck became a private eye specializing in corporate skulduggery, but his father's war is still vivid and alive for him.   Inside his bright workspace at Global Options Inc. on L Street NW, he preserves the OSS legacy with posters, stickers, lapel pins, distinguished service medals and an agency flag emblazoned with a spearhead design.&nbsp;


...That reunion, held at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, was one of the first OSS gatherings not intended solely as a social occasion. 

...Its agents were selected not for formal military expertise, but because they could use their wits and find innovative ways, in dodgy situations, to win the war.


..."What headquarters decided, ingeniously, is to find someone who is neither old enough or smart enough to be fearful," Dan Pinck, now 79, recounted last month at a speech at the International Spy Museum. 

...The OSS sent him to a small village in southeast China called Hotien to report intelligence about enemy troop movements, weather patterns and possible bombing targets along the Japanese-held coastline 19 miles away.


...He carried with him a curious array of tools, including $ 1 million in cash to pay his Nationalist army assistants and boxes of condoms that he was told would greatly please Nationalist military officers. 

...Sure enough, Pinck wrote in his memoir, they found a page from the Boy Scout manual and an incriminating scroll with information about Pinck and his associates. 

...Charles Pinck, who lives in Georgetown, is the only one of the four to have a lasting fascination with his father's war tales.


...The father exposed his son early on to OSS friends who had lively war careers and maintained a sense of derring-do later in life. 

...He saw the connection between his own work and his father's wartime responsibilities, even if it is less dangerous to pore over public records than foil spies.


Since becoming president of the 1,000-member OSS Society last year, he has been working on an oral history project with the Smithsonian Institution, publishing quarterly newsletters and overseeing an e-mail discussion group with requests from the descendants of OSS agents asking for information about their relatives. 

..."For a lot of people, including my father, if it wasn't the best part of their lives," he says, "it was certainly the most interesting part of their lives."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Breaking Bread; For Teen Spy&#x2c; A Little Trouble in Big China</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-08-13T15:52:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/2.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/2.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Some of the anecdotes he's weaving are recorded in his new book, "Journey to Peking," a delightful, insightful, and playful memoir about his 18 months in China as a secret agent for the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency.


...Pinck, now 79, was a spy to defy the stereotype, not as bold as Herb Philbrick in "I Led Three Lives" nor as altruistic as William Holden in "Counterfeit Traitor" - and never as hedonistic as James Bond in "Diamonds Are Forever," which is to say that Pinck was never dressed by a London tailor, never ordered a martini shaken, and never cavorted in exotic European capitals with wanton women.


...Having enlisted in the Army as a freshman at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., he was elated to receive orders to active duty on the very morning in 1942 that he was scheduled to take an exam in calculus, about which he says he didn't know beans and was certain to flunk.


...On his first day in the Army, when a sergeant woke him at 4:30, Pinck told the sergeant to go to hell, and as a result he spent his first day in the Army on KP (kitchen patrol).


...Think of Joseph Heller's novel "Catch 22," about the madness of a military bureaucracy gone amok, and especially the character Yossarian, who was ineligible for a mental health discharge from combat because merely asking for one demonstrated that he was sane.


...He was assigned to the Army Air Corps and sent to Miami Beach, where he lived in the penthouse of an Art Deco hotel, sometimes playing tennis, sometimes marching down Collins Boulevard, singing an Army song.


..."I didn't know what a brothel was, but the idea was that you'd go inside and if you saw Americans having sex, you were to tap them on the shoulder, get them out of there and arrest them," he says. 

...Although Pinck was only 19, had no experience in espionage, had never been to China, and did not speak the language, he won the assignment, he says, because his commanding officer lived not far from him in Bethesda, and they knew a lot of the same people.


...Rather than send the teenager to his new assignment unprepared, the officer gave him two days indoctrination that consisted principally of teaching him how to insert a detonator into plastic to blow up something and how to use the dozen pencil-shaped, tubelike guns he was given, each with a single .22-caliber bullet, in case he was captured by the Japanese and wanted to commit suicide.


...It was in China that Pinck began taking notes for the book that, in various incarnations, was rejected by more than 40 publishers until Pinck's son, Charles, a private investigator in Washington, persuaded the Naval Institute Press to publish it.


..."There were scholars here, including till near the end of his life, John King Fairbank of Harvard, who was - I wouldn't say duped - but he'd been in the OSS in China and he thought Mao was an agrarian reformer. 

..."The miracle is that when Deng Xiaoping came along and revamped the economic system and talked about property rights, this was remarkable because if China had gone into economic ruin, there'd have been another revolution."


...In Pinck's library are hundreds of books about espionage and mementos of his time in China, including an American flag made by the people of Hotien that has red stripes where white should be and white where red should be.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Historical Footnote On Press Leaks</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2007-12-01T23:32:56-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A brief summation of the newspaper&rsquo;s actions is based on the following: in late May of 1942 our Navy cryptographers decoded a Japanese navy cipher, JN-25-C, used by Admiral Yamamoto who stated that he intended to invade Midway. 

...Three days later, on June 7, 1942, a page one article titled Navy Had Word Of  Jap Plan To Strike At Sea appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in its two sister newspapers, the New York News and the Washington Times-Herald. ...  The first paragraph was: &ldquo;Washington, June 7. &ndash; The strength of the Japanese forces with which the American Navy is battling somewhere west of Midway Island in what is believed to be the war&rsquo;s greatest naval battle, was well-known in American naval circles, reliable sources in the naval intelligence disclosed here tonight.&rdquo;  

...On August 7, 1942, Francis Biddle, our Solicitor General, announced that a Grand Jury would be convened in Chicago to investigate Johnston&rsquo;s article.  ...  Grant Sanger, M. D. wrote in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings (September 1977): &ldquo;I agree with the late Judge Thomas D. Thacher, Solicitor General 1930-1933, that if the Navy had seen fit to present evidence to the Chicago Grand Jury in 1942 on the background of how we  got Admiral Yamamoto&rsquo;s plan of operation, those responsible for the article would have been indicted for treason.&rdquo;


...(In the interest of full disclosure, I note that I attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington and met some of the major players in the government, including Wheeler, and that I rarely ever looked at the Times-Herald  but, nontheless, knew that it was, as James Thurber might say, further right than a soup spoon. 

...Walter Trohan, the newspaper&rsquo;s Washington correspondent whose string of vile reporting equaled his longevity (he died at age one hundred), wrote an article that appeared simultaneously in the Tribune and the Times-Herald on February 9, 1945.   This time, the newspapers aimed to cover their tails by printing the following at the beginning of the report: &ldquo;The Washington Times-Herald and the Chicago Tribune yesterday secured exclusively a copy of a highly confidential memorandum from Brig.


...The Office of Strategic Services was the forerunner of the CIA and it had an honorable record during the war, with upwards of four hundred men and women behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia. ...  On August 22, 1945, Trohan shifted into high gear in an article headlined &ldquo;OSS Survival Plan Attacked As Plot for U. S. Super-Gestapo/ Congress Prepares to Unearth Secrets of Donovan&rsquo;s Mix of Bankers and Reds.&rdquo; ...  Striving again for a safety net, the Tribune stated at the end of Trohan&rsquo;s article: &ldquo;Although these documents and those submitted to the White House by General Donovanwere made available to the Chicago Tribune, they were never officially in possession of this newspaper. 

...Liebling, one of our best press critics, in a Wayward Press column in The New Yorker (March 25, 1950) reported that McCormick said, in an interview with a Tribune correspondent in Cairo: &ldquo;France is atheist and anarchic. 

...I&rsquo;ll rest for the present an observation that Liebling made in 1961: &ldquo;I think that anybody who talks often with people about newspapers nowadays must be impressed by the growing distrust of the information they contain.&rdquo; ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dulles papers released by CIA to Princeton</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-01-23T20:40:37-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/7.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/7.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The material related to his espionage work during World War II is especially illuminating," said Daniel Linke, curator of Public Policy Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, which houses the Dulles Papers.&nbsp;   The CIA retains many documents related to Dulles' time as head of that agency, but Linke noted that those released "provide insight into not only Dulles, but the classification process and, in my opinion, its shortcomings. 

...Dulles Digital Files released to Princeton contain scanned images of professional correspondence, reports, lectures and administrative papers covering Dulles' tenure with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) -- a U.S. intelligence agency created during World War II and forerunner of the CIA -- as well as his career with the CIA and his retirement. 

...The collection includes correspondence and narrative statements documenting Dulles' activities during World War II, especially relating to the work of individuals involved in the war effort in Europe.   The files also include more than 1,000 war telegrams from the OSS office to Washington, D.C. Documents from the 1950s and 1960s deal almost exclusively with the Cold War, mostly focusing on intelligence and the Soviet Union along with some covering Sen. ...  Items relating to Dulles' time with the CIA have been heavily redacted, obscuring the names of correspondents as well as individuals and events mentioned in reports and letters.


...In 1950, he was named the CIA's deputy director of plans, the agency's covert operations arm, and in 1951, he became the CIA's deputy director. 

...His brother, John Foster Dulles (a 1908 Princeton graduate), served as Eisenhower's secretary of state, and the two men worked closely during their joint service.   The CIA under Dulles' leadership established the dual policy of collecting intelligence through a wide variety of means, as well as taking direct action against perceived threats.


Dulles' notable achievements in intelligence gathering included the development of the U-2 spy plane program, the recruitment of Soviet Lieutenant General Pyotr Popov as a U.S. spy, and the tapping of a sensitive East Berlin phone junction by tunneling under the Berlin Wall. ...  However, efforts to oust Fidel Castro from Cuba following his rise to power consisted of a series of failures culminating in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. 

...He was called to public service once again in 1963, when he was named to the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy.   His connection to the CIA and its activities in Cuba would fuel later speculation about possible U.S. government complicity in Kennedy's assassination.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Glorious Amateurs: A New OSS</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-01-24T08:57:53-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/8.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/8.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, occasional proposals have been made to re-create the OSS, an ad hoc intelligence organization created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led by Major General William "Wild Bill" Donovan that holds a special place in the history of intelligence.


Its mission was twofold: first, to provide the President with timely, comprehensive and coordinated intelligence and analysis that he failed to receive from any single government intelligence agency or department, including the military, the State Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.   Secondly, the President wanted to have an independent group that would engage in clandestine and covert actions on many fronts patterned after Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), which Winston Churchill directed to "set Europe ablaze."


...It was so successful that four months after end of the war and six months after Roosevelt's death, the generals and admirals, the State and War Departments, and the FBI conspired to persuade President Truman to disband the organization, which he did, on October 1, 1945.


...The creation of the OSS was itself a&nbsp;small miracle made possible only by the strong support of President Roosevelt and his close personal relationship with General Donovan. ...  (After witnessing Donovan fire a silenced .22 caliber pistol designed by the OSS, Roosevelt famously quipped that Donovan was the only Republican he would allow in the Oval Office with a gun.&nbsp; 

...The most striking attributes of the OSS were its leadership, the background of its members, and the fact that the organization reported directly to President Roosevelt.   In July 1941, before the US entered World War II, Roosevelt accepted Donovan's plan for a new intelligence organization called the Coordinator of Information (COI), which actually was the name of our first peacetime intelligence organization. ...  After we entered the war, Roosevelt signed a military order on June 13, 1942 establishing the OSS and appointing Donovan as its director. 

...OSS veteran Fisher Howe said it best: "If you define leadership as having a vision for an organization and the ability to attract, motivate, and guide others to fulfill that vision, then you have Bill Donovan in spades."


...For example, a young woman from Baltimore, who had served in Europe in a minor diplomatic job before Pearl Harbor, wanted to join the OSS and volunteered for risky work, despite losing a leg in a horse riding accident. 

...What do Saul Steinberg, the artist, John Ford, the movie director, Moe Berg, the baseball player who knew twelve languages, Julia Child, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, historian and Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Carlton S. Coon,&nbsp; the anthropologist, Norman Holmes Pearson, a professor of English, Stewart Alsop, the columnist, Sterling Hayden,&nbsp;an actor, Paul Mellon, a multi-millionaire, Col. Aaron Bank, the founder of the Green Berets, and Ralph Bunche, a foreign affairs specialist who became the Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, have in common? 

...A wise leader of a newly-created OSS might be able to recruit a similar group of remarkable people today and unleash their creativity, much like Donovan did.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Best Spies Didn&#x27;t Wear Suits</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><category>Dan Pinck</category><dc:date>2004-12-10T15:36:02-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/3.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/3.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Donovan, known as Wild Bill, who was a World War I Medal of Honor winner, Wall Street lawyer, former United States attorney in Buffalo and 1932 Republican candidate for governor of New York.   Although a member of the opposition party, Donovan got along well with Roosevelt, and the men shared an unfashionable belief that America's liberty was threatened by foreign powers.


...Eventually he convinced the president of the need for a centralized spying agency, and in July 1941 Roosevelt created a civilian agency within the White House to oversee American intelligence, naming Donovan to the new post of "coordinator of information."


...Perhaps Donovan's greatest skill was his ability to recruit talented men and women from other fields, whether they came from the Ivy League, Wall Street or, believe it or not, prison. ...  William Quinn, then running the Strategic Services Unit, an interim organization created after the dissolution of the O.S.S. in 1945, was alerted by Treasury agents to the presence of master forgers in his ranks.   Unknown to Quinn, Donovan had arranged for the release of these men from prison during the war to work for the O.S.S.)


...He understood and accepted the inherent risks associated with intelligence work - often telling O.S.S. personnel that "you can't succeed without taking chances" - and was as willing to take responsibility for failures as for successes.


...It was a freewheeling organization devoted to finding effective ways of winning a war that imperiled the nation's future, a situation we find ourselves in once again. 

...Donovan was also one of the first spy chiefs to recognize the importance of covert action and the need for "actionable intelligence" (information gathered and interpreted quickly enough that action can still be taken to change the situation).


When the war ended, President Harry Truman, who knew little about intelligence issues, disbanded the O.S.S. - only to realize his mistake two years later and create the Central Intelligence Agency. 

...While this wasn't necessarily a fatal flaw during the cold war, a war of diplomacy and proxy armies in which data collection was often more important than covert action, it would be crippling in the hot war against terrorism.


...In addition, granting tremendous new powers to a "terrorism czar" will work only if that person is, like Donovan, truly independent and above the infighting we will certainly see from the Pentagon and other departments. 

...Fisher Howe, a leading O.S.S. officer, once said that "if you define leadership as having a vision for an organization, and the ability to attract, motivate and guide followers to fulfill that mission, you have Bill Donovan in spades." ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Letter to the Editor</title><dc:creator>OSS REBORN</dc:creator><category>Charles Pinck</category><dc:date>2008-01-21T15:36:05-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/6.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ossreborn.com/index_files/6.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In his Dec. 24 column, "Subverting Bush at Langley," Robert D. Novak included a swipe at the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor of the CIA.   Mr. Novak wrote that the OSS "was infiltrated by communists."


The Soviet Union was our ally during World War II.   The OSS was not infiltrated by communists during the war; it hired them.   They helped to identify native recruits to infiltrate enemy forces and organizations.   OSS founder William Donovan reportedly said that he would "put Stalin on the OSS payroll if it would help defeat Hitler."


After the war, a plague of invective assaulted&nbsp; Donovan and the OSS.   He was not only accused of harboring communists but of a far worse crime: proposing a peacetime successor to the OSS that&nbsp; critics called a Gestapo.&nbsp;   Donovan believed that the main culprit was J.   Edgar Hoover, who had vehemently opposed creation of the OSS in 1942.   The OSS was disbanded by President Harry S. Truman in 1945.


Regarding Hoover,&nbsp; Donovan once said that his greatest enemies were in Washington, not Europe.   Apparently they still are.
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