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OSS had a dismal security reputation. Established agencies like the [[FBI]] and [[Military intelligence#United States Army|G-2]] believed that Donovan's outfit, built from scratch with many corners cut in the hiring of its staff, had been penetrated with [[subversion (political)|subversives]] and spies.  At least fifteen Soviet agents penetrated the OSS, with the actual number more likely around twenty.<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page58.html Exchange with Arthur Herman and ''Venona'' book talk], Joint Herman and Haynes Book Talk,  Borders, Washington, D.C., February 2000,</ref>

OSS had a dismal security reputation. Established agencies like the [[FBI]] and [[Military intelligence#United States Army|G-2]] believed that Donovan's outfit, built from scratch with many corners cut in the hiring of its staff, had been penetrated with [[subversion (political)|subversives]] and spies.  At least fifteen Soviet agents penetrated the OSS, with the actual number more likely around twenty.<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page58.html Exchange with Arthur Herman and ''Venona'' book talk], Joint Herman and Haynes Book Talk,  Borders, Washington, D.C., February 2000,</ref>

Soviet sympathizers and spies worked in OSS offices in Washington and the field. Some were hired precisely because they were [[Communists]]; Donovan wanted their help in dealing with partisan groups in Nazi-occupied Europe. Others who were not Communists, such as Donovan's aide [[Duncan Lee]], Research and Analysis (R&A) labor economist [[Donald Wheeler]], Morale Operations Indonesia expert [[Jane Foster Zlatowski]], and R&A Latin America specialist [[Maurice Halperin]], nevertheless passed information to Moscow. OSS operations in [[China]], moreover, were badly penetrated by Communist agents working as clerical and housekeeping staff, or training in OSS camps for operational missions.<ref>[http://webroots.org/library/usamisc/oss-cia0.html ''The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency''], Michael Warner, CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Published: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 2000.</ref>

Soviet sympathizers and spies worked in OSS offices in Washington and the field. Some were hired precisely because they were [[Communists]]; Donovan wanted their help in dealing with partisan groups in Nazi-occupied Europe. Others who were not Communists, such as Donovan's aide [[Duncan Lee]], Research and Analysis (R&A) labor economist [[Donald Wheeler]], Morale Operations Indonesia expert [[Jane Foster Zlatowski]], and R&A Latin America specialist [[Maurice Halperin]], nevertheless passed information to Moscow. OSS operations in [[China]], moreover, were badly penetrated by Communist agents working as clerical and housekeeping staff, or training in OSS camps for operational missions.<ref>[http://webroots.org/library/usamisc/oss-cia0.html ''The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency''], [[Michael Warner]], CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Published: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 2000.</ref>

The OSS purchased Soviet code and cipher material (or Finnish information on them) from émigré Finnish army officers in late 1944. Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]]'s protested this violated an agreement President Roosevelt made with the Soviet Union not to interfere with Soviet cipher traffic from the U.S. Donovan might have copied the papers before returning them the following January but there is no record of [[Arlington Hall]] receiving them, and CIA and NSA archives have no surviving copies.

The OSS purchased Soviet code and cipher material (or Finnish information on them) from émigré Finnish army officers in late 1944. Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]]'s protested this violated an agreement President Roosevelt made with the Soviet Union not to interfere with Soviet cipher traffic from the U.S. Donovan might have copied the papers before returning them the following January but there is no record of [[Arlington Hall]] receiving them, and CIA and NSA archives have no surviving copies.

*[[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

*[[Julius Joseph]], OSS Far Eastern section

*[[Julius Joseph]], OSS Far Eastern section

*[[Philip Keeney]],  OSS librarian; husband of [[Mary Jane Keeney]]

*[[Philip Keeney]],  OSS librarian; husband of [[Mary Jane Keeney]]

*[http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/ The CIA's OSS page]  

*[http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/ The CIA's OSS page]  

*[http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/profile-index.html OSS psychological profile report] on [[Hitler]]  

*[http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/profile-index.html OSS psychological profile report] on [[Hitler]]  

*[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403443,00.html Julia Child Among Spies Revealed in Newly Released Federal Documents]

*[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403443,00.html Julia Child Among Spies Revealed in Newly Released Federal Documents]

*[http://www.osssociety.org OSS Society]  

*[http://www.osssociety.org OSS Society]  

*[http://www.ossog.org Office of Strategic Services Operational Groups]  

*[http://www.ossog.org Office of Strategic Services Operational Groups]