Changes

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==

==Famous OSS members==

*[[Moe Berg]] - Chicago White Sox catcher

*[[Moe Berg]] - Chicago White Sox catcher

*[[Julia Child]] - Famed chef  

*[[Julia Child]] - Famed chef  

*[[Miles Copeland]] - father of [[Stewart Copeland]], drummer for the band The Police

*[[Miles Copeland]] - father of [[Stewart Copeland]], drummer for the band The Police