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2. Office of Strategic Services - Wikipedia

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   The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991) ISBN 0911333916; Chambers II, John Whiteclay. OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II (NPS, 2008) online; chapters 1-2 and 8-11 provide a useful summary history of OSS by a scholar.

3. X-2 Counter Espionage Branch - Wikipedia

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   With the beginning of World War II, the Office of the Coordinator of Information, headed by William Donovan, was split and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) created on 13 June 1942. [6] The State Department and military services blocked the OSS from receiving communications intercepted from the Axis Powers , through the Ultra program ...

4. John Magruder (United States Army officer, born 1887)

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   John L. Magruder (June 3, 1887 – April 30, 1958) was an American military and intelligence officer who was deputy director of the Office of Strategic Services and director of the Strategic Services Unit. He held the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army.

5. Special Operations Branch - Wikipedia

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   The Special Operations Branch (SO) was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that "pioneered" many of the unconventional warfare, counter-insurgency (COIN), and foreign internal defense tactics and techniques used by today's US Military Special Operations Forces (SOF).

6. 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion (United States)

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   The 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion was an elite light infantry unit that specializes in special reconnaissance behind enemy lines and in dangerous areas. It was organized at Caserta, Italy on 1 August 1944 under the sponsorship of U.S. 5th Army.

7. William J. Donovan - Wikipedia

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   William Joseph "Wild Bill" [1] Donovan KBE (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. He is best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during World War II.