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...OSS's wartime director, stocky, blue-eyed Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 62, this was half a victory and much better than none. In the atomic age, the U.S. for the first time would have a clearing house to tie to gether all agencies' intelligence work. It could have used one before Pearl Harbor, when global gumshoeing was a fine art among other powers. (Britain's S.I.S.- -Secret Intelligence Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking...
Orders from Tokyo (Philippine Commonwealth-OSS-Warner) were found on Japanese soldiers who died in Manila's walled city. They were detailed instructions from Imperial Headquarters for "the systematic massacre" of the city's civilians, children and women as well as men. This short color film, the work of Marine Captain David C. Griffin, is the record of the execution of these orders...
...some time, they said, documents labeled "restricted" and "top secret" had been disappearing from the State Department and other Government agencies-War, Navy, OWI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the supersecret Office of Strategic Services. Material from some of the documents had appeared in Amerasia (which had used one OSS report verbatim) and in Free-Lance Gayn's articles in Col lier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Some of the documents, said J. Edgar Hoover, had been found in the possession of those arrested...
Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson will have three top assistants: Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, head of the cloak-&-dagger OSS; U.S. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea; and railway attorney Sidney S. Alderman. They have...
...after the Reader's Digest reached the newsstands, Barmine received a registered letter at home informing him that he had been discharged by OSS. The reason: "continued absences." Last week, Barmine termed this "completely false and preposterous." Less than a month ago, he said, he had been commended for his work. And last April, when he had tried to resign because of ill health, his resignation was turned down. He was given a pay raise along with permission for brief absences for treatment. Since then, OSS admitted, Barmine has not been absent oftener than any other employe. But OSS...