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...edict came from on high, the brainchild of BPD Capt. William Evans, and it takes the form of a new police program: Operation Student Shield (OSS). Already implemented in Brighton and Allston, the program aims to do away with the dirty drinking habits of underage revelers. At a meeting last week with local college officials, Evans asserted that OSS will soon be extended to the entire Boston area, affecting thousands of undergraduates who’ve yet to attain their 21st year. And according to the captain, Harvard students’ behavior at last year’s tailgate...
...learned that lesson during World War II, when as a 31-year-old file clerk for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA), she met her future husband Paul, who ran the OSS war room. She had no love of food, having been raised in Pasadena, Calif., by a New Englander mother so New Englandy that she registered her daughter at Smith the day she was born. But Paul adored food. So even though she had never cooked much, Julia got a diploma at France's Cordon Bleu when Paul was stationed in Paris. Shortly thereafter...
June 13, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Office of Strategic Services and makes WILLIAM (WILD BILL) DONOVAN director; during World War II, roughly 1,500 OSS agents sneak into occupied Europe and Asia before Allied armies, organizing resistance groups. The office is dissolved after...
...ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment upon themselves watching themselves be interrogated. Dr. [Henry A.] Murray had worked for the OSS [Office of Strategic Services], and some believed he was developing interrogation techniques for the CIA. Others say this is ridiculous. The play takes no position about that...
Further, Roosevelt hired William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan to assemble the OSS, a large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated...