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The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA (New York: Basic, 1983) ISBN 0465077560; Smith, Richard Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972; Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005) ISBN 0520020235; Steury, Donald P. The Intelligence War (New York: Metrobooks ...
In 2001, of the 17,000 employees in the CIA, there were 1,000 in the Clandestine Service. Of that 1,000 few accepted hardship postings. In the first days of George W. Bush's presidency, Al Qaeda threats were ubiquitous in daily Presidential CIA briefings, but it may have become a case of the boy who cries wolf. The agency's predictions were ...
In many respects, this was the beginning of the idea that what was to become the Directorate of Support had a far wider scope than the OSS and initial CIA term, Directorate of Administration. Smith presented the concept that the CIA would need a worldwide system of support bases, which usually could be tenant organizations on military bases.
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.
William Hood, formerly of the OSS then CIA (1947–1975), [435] [436] assisted Helms with the book. Henry Kissinger wrote the foreword. [437] Richard Helms died at the age of 89 of multiple myeloma on October 23, 2002. [425] He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700616909. OCLC 320185462. Waller, Douglas C. (2015). Disciples: The World War II Spy Story of the Four OSS Men Who Later Led the CIA: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey. New York: Simon & Schuster.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda. New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-94980-0. OCLC 182552888. Fischer, Benjamin. Fifty Years of Supporting Operations: A History of CIA's Office of Technical Service (1951-2001) (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-05-06