Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Research and Analysis Branch of OSS became part of the State Department; in fact, the research division of that department is a direct descendant of Langer's group, while the entire top level intelligence system (CIA) was sired by other branches of OSS. The work done by Langer and his group became instrumental in setting up governments of occupation, and it was not until 1946 that he returned to the University...
According to Langer, "the Harvard contingent in OSS was a very powerful one;" included in that group were mostly History Department people, but here and there a professor of something else was accepted. Such a man is Milton Katz, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law. After a period as Solicitor for the War Production Board and U.S. Executive Officer of the Combined Production and Resources Board (U.S. Britain-Canada)-- work which involved planning industrial mobilization for war--Katz in 1943 joined the Navy and was assigned to OSS duty in the Mediterranean and Western European Theatres...
...Katz returned to Washington, where he first helped work out the organizational changes required for the transition from the wartime activities of OSS to a permanent peacetime Central Intelligence Agency. Upon transfer to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, he "was assigned to the so-called Eberstadt group . . . in the preparation of a report on the Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Postwar Organization for National Security...
...last three OSS men in Germany when the group was disbanded, Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...
...crowded caves through 1942. Fairbank himself was beset with jaundice and dysentery, but says he was not in much danger of losing his life. "We ate better than the poor people," he reports, although stringy water buffalo meat and goat's milk doesn't sound too appetizing today. The group he was with lived