Word: oss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff of 1500 working under his guidance and direction...
...tried to pull all the knowledge of crucial areas together," he recalls, citing the secret intelligence reports from behind the lines as well as economic and political information that the staff of experts prepared from published material. The biggest problem OSS had to face was securing the most important information without angering army and navy intelligence men. Such information as the most important bombing targets ("We couldn't tell the Air Force what to bomb, but we could tell them what the relative importance of targets was") and what railroads needed attack was provided by the "cloak and dagger boys...
Allies Capture OSS...
...course, there were occasional mishaps, and Langer recalls with a smile the group of OSS men sent to Burma by way of the Mediterranean who were stopped by Allied forces in North Africa. Since they could not reveal their secret mission, they were compounded for a week until clearance from Washington came through...
...Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...