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Office of Strategic Services (view source)
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In October 1945 the OSS was dissolved and its functions were split between the Departments of State and War. State received the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS which was renamed the Interim Research and Intelligence Service (IRIS) and headed by Alfred McCormack. <ref>[http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel/frus-ie.txt Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, 1945-1950], Office of the Historian, United States Department of State, July 1996.</ref> The Department of War took over the Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counter-espionage (X-2) Branches that were housed in a new office created for just this purpose - The Strategic Services Unit (SSU). The Secretary of War appointed Brigadier General John Magruder (formerly Donovan's Deputy Director for Intelligence in OSS) as director to oversee the liquidation, and more importantly the preservation of the OSS' clandestine intelligence capability. In January of 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) which was the direct precursor to the CIA. The assets of the SSU, which now constituted a streamlined "nucleus" of clandestine intelligence was transferred to the CIG in mid-1946 and reconstituted as the Office of Special Operations (OSO). In [[1947]] the [[National Security Act of 1947|National Security Act]] established America's first permanent peacetime intelligence agency, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], which took up the functions of the OSS. <ref>[http://www.ncix.gov/issues/CI_Reader/Vol2/Vol2_TOC.pdf ''Counterintelligence Reader''], Vol. 2 Ch. 3, National Counterintelligence Center, 2004.</ref>
In October 1945 the OSS was dissolved and its functions were split between the Departments of State and War. State received the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS which was renamed the Interim Research and Intelligence Service (IRIS) and headed by Alfred McCormack. <ref>[http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel/frus-ie.txt Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, 1945-1950], Office of the Historian, United States Department of State, July 1996.</ref> The Department of War took over the Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counter-espionage (X-2) Branches that were housed in a new office created for just this purpose - The Strategic Services Unit (SSU). The Secretary of War appointed Brigadier General John Magruder (formerly Donovan's Deputy Director for Intelligence in OSS) as director to oversee the liquidation, and more importantly the preservation of the OSS' clandestine intelligence capability. In January of 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) which was the direct precursor to the CIA. The assets of the SSU, which now constituted a streamlined "nucleus" of clandestine intelligence was transferred to the CIG in mid-1946 and reconstituted as the Office of Special Operations (OSO). In [[1947]] the [[National Security Act of 1947|National Security Act]] established America's first permanent peacetime intelligence agency, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], which took up the functions of the OSS. <ref>[http://www.ncix.gov/issues/CI_Reader/Vol2/Vol2_TOC.pdf ''Counterintelligence Reader''], Vol. 2 Ch. 3, National Counterintelligence Center, 2004.</ref>
==Well known OSS members==
*[[Moe Berg]] - Chicago White Sox catcher
*[[Julia Child]] - Famed chef
*[[Miles Copeland]] - father of [[Stewart Copeland]], drummer for the band The Police
*[[Arthur Goldberg]] - Supreme Court Justice
*[[John Hemingway]] - son of author [[Ernest Hemingway]]
*[[Quentin Roosevelt|Quentin]] and [[Kermit Roosevelt]] - sons of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
==Known Soviet operatives==
==Known Soviet operatives==
*[[Eugene Dennis]], senior member of the [[CPUSA]] leadership
*[[Eugene Dennis]], senior member of the [[CPUSA]] leadership
**[[Carl Marzani]], Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
**[[Carl Marzani]], Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
*[[Thomas Babin]], OSS section working with Yugoslav resistance
*[[Thomas Babin]], OSS section working with Yugoslav resistance
*[[Horst Baerensprung]], OSS consultant on Germany
*[[Horst Baerensprung]], OSS consultant on Germany
*[[Linn Farish]]
*[[Linn Farish]]
*[[Jane Foster]], OSS Far Eastern and Indonesian section
*[[Jane Foster]], OSS Far Eastern and Indonesian section
*[[Maurice Halperin]], chief of the Latin American Division of OSS Research and Analysis
*[[Maurice Halperin]], chief of the Latin American Division of OSS Research and Analysis
*[[Hans Hirschfeld]], OSS consultant on Germany [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/hirschfeld] (in Dutch)
*[[Hans Hirschfeld]], OSS consultant on Germany [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/hirschfeld] (in Dutch)
*[[Bella Joseph]], motion picture section of OSS)
*[[Bella Joseph]], motion picture section of OSS)
*[[Leonard Mins]], Russian section of OSS Research and Analysis
*[[Leonard Mins]], Russian section of OSS Research and Analysis
*[[Franz Leopold Neumann]]
*[[Franz Leopold Neumann]]
*[[John Scott]]
*[[John Scott]]
*[[Helen Tenney]], OSS Spanish section
*[[Helen Tenney]], OSS Spanish section