Strategic Services Unit organization

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William J. Donovan proposed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Fears that a foreign intelligence agency would intrude into domestic matters went back to 1944 when General William Donovan head of the Officeof Strategic Services proposed that the OSS be transformed from a wartime basis to a permanent 'ce…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.465

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Fears that a foreign intelligenceagency would intrude into domestic matters went back to 1944 when General William Dono van head of the Officeof Strategic Services (the CIA's wartime predecessor) proposedthat OSSbe transformed from a wartim…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.73

William J. Donovan proposed Strategic Services Unit reported document

“Donovan's plan was leaked to the Chicago Tribune al legedlyby FBI Director Hoover and it was denouncedas a "super spy system which world "pry into the lives of citizens at home.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.73

J. Edgar Hoover removed_from_power Strategic Services Unit documented document

“FBI Director J Edgar Hoover and Nelson Rockefeller then Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs insisted on maintaining their jurisdiction over Iatin America thereby excluding OSS from that area…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

Nelson Rockefeller removed_from_power Strategic Services Unit documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

United Kingdom trained Strategic Services Unit documented document

“British experts served as instructors to their American counterparts in communications counterespionage subversive propaganda and special operations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

William J. Donovan worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Donovan's hope that OSS would continue uninterrupted did not materialize…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.12

Harry S. Truman dissolved Strategic Services Unit documented document

“President Harry S Truman ordered the disbandment of OSS as of October 1 1945…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.12

Foreign Broadcast Information Service subsidiary_of Strategic Services Unit documented document

“The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) an element of OSS monitored overseas broadcasts…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.18

CIA acquired Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In the spring of 1946 an interdepartmental committee whose members had been chosen by the President recommended that CIG absorb SSU's functions…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.20

William Langer worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“To organize the Office of National Estimates Smith called on William Langer the Harvard historian who had directed the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS during the war.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.24

CIA member_of Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Indeed in 1947 one-third of the CIA's personnel had served with OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.34

Frank G. Wisner worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“After a brief stint in the Navy Wisner was assigned to OSS and spent part of his time serving under Allen Dulles in Wiesbaden Germany…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.40

Frank Wisner worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In addition his service with OSS had been oriented toward Central Europe…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.42

Allen W. Dulles worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Dulles was responsible for supervising both OPC and OSO although the two components were independently administered by their own Directors…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44

Strategic Services Unit merged_with Office of Policy Coordination documented document

“real integration at the operations level did not occur until August 1952 when OSO and OPC became the Directorate of Plans (DDP)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44

Office of Policy Coordination merged_with Strategic Services Unit documented document

“real integration at the operations level did not occur until August 1952 when OSO and OPC became the Directorate of Plans (DDP)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.44

Allen Dulles worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“William Donovan called on Dulles to serve in OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.49

Richard Helms worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In 1942 he joined the service and was assigned to OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.72

Boris Pash worked_for Strategic Services Unit reported document

“Pash speculated that the reason he may have dismissed charter language relating to assassination was that he saw it as a part of the wartime mentality carried into the CIA's clandestine services by former officers who served in the Officeof…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.136

Office of Strategic Services split_off_from Strategic Services Unit documented document

“The Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counterespionage (X 2) sections were transferred to the War Department where they formed the Strategic Services Unit…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.160

CIA succeeded Strategic Services Unit documented document

“The need for such capabilities was tied to earlier Office of Strategic Services World War II experience…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.10

CIA did_business_with Strategic Services Unit documented document

“The need for such capabilities was tied to earlier Officeof Strategic Services World War II experience which included the developmentoftwo different types of agent suicide pills to be used in the event of capture and a successful operation …”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.14

Richard Helms worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“is it correct to say that you started at the OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.98

CIA acquired Strategic Services Unit documented document

“When the remnant parts of the OSS were picked up and placed as a sort of secret service under the CIA…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.96

CIA split_off_from Strategic Services Unit documented document

“so the next thing was how do you not only settle this organization which has been taken from the OSS into the Government…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.102

Special Departmental Unit worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“The Unit received and analyzed reports from the FBI the State Department the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.426

Strategic Services Unit operated_in Latin America documented document

“When another foreign intelligence agency the Office of Strategic Services was established in 1941 it sought to enter the Latin American…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.430

Strategic Services Unit carried_out_attack Spanish Embassy reported document

“Within the United States OSS officers are reported to have secretly entered the Spanish embassy in Washington to photo graph documents…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.431

Trump administration ordered_assassination_of Strategic Services Unit reported document

“When OSS protested to the White House the President's aides reportedly ordered the embassy entry project turned over to the FBI.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

Strategic Services Unit carried_out_attack Amerasia documented document

“A similar incident occurred in 1945 when OSS security officers illegally entered the offices of Amerasia magazine in the search for confidential government documents.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

U.S. Department of Justice covered_up Strategic Services Unit documented document

“This illegal entry made it impossible for the Justice Department to prosecute vigorously on the basis of the subsequent FBI investigation for fear of exposing the 'taint' which started the inquiry…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

William J. Donovan worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In 1944 the head of OSS William Donovan negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

Strategic Services Unit did_business_with NKVD documented document

“In 1944 the head of OSS William Donovan negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union for an exchange of missions between OSS and the NKVD…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

Harry S. Truman dissolved Strategic Services Unit documented document

“At the end of the war President Truman abolished the Office of Strategic Services and dispersed its functions to the War and State Departments…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.465

War Department transferred Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In the spring of 1946 SSU's duties responsibilities and personnel were transferred to CIG along with SSU's seven overseas field stations and communications and logistical apparatus…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.110

William J. Donovan founded Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of William J Donovan sponsor and first director of OSS the organization became the United States first independent intelligence body…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.10

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of William J Donovan sponsor and first director of OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.10

Strategic Services Unit split_off_from Office of Coordinator of Information documented document

“A year after its creation when the United States was embroiled in war with Germany and Japan the Office was renamed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

Strategic Services Unit operated_in Asia documented document

“General Douglas MacArthur excluded OSS from China and the Pacific theater (although OSS did operate in Southeast Asia)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

Douglas MacArthur removed_from_power Strategic Services Unit documented document

“General Douglas MacArthur excluded OSS from China and the Pacific theater…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

Lucien Conein member_of Strategic Services Unit documented

“He made his way back to the U.S. and was assigned to the OSS due to his language proficiency and experience in fighting Germans. Koning was eventually transferred to the Pacific, where he conducted commando raids against the Japanese. He wi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 32:40

Counterintelligence Corps succeeded Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“on helping him get the Japanese out of Vietnam. In addition to the SSU, the Army Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operations center and eventually becomes the G2 of the Army. So given the role of the official intelligence…”

▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 35:58

Allen Dulles headed Strategic Services Unit host_asserted

“Next, it talks about we're fighting the wrong enemy. So Alan Dulles' contention in 1942 in the middle of the World War II, because it was not finished at that point. Alan Dulles is the Swiss director of the precursor to CIA, which is the Of…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:28:15

Thomas Corcoran member_of Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 10:12

James Jesus Angleton member_of Strategic Services Unit host_asserted

“if you don't know, is instrumental in the murder of JFK later on. He is working in the OSS. He eventually becomes the number three guy in the new CIA. But Angleton was a rabid anti-communist, devout Roman Catholic, very odd guy. He wore lik…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:44:08

War Department front_for Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“near Wiesbaden. To handle the removal or retention of agent networks, the WDD was actually a cover name for a newly formed strategic services unit, that SSU. So that was just going to be the in-theater version of what was set up back in Was…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 33:21

Arnold Silver allied_with Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“Camp King, Arnold Silver was aware of most, if not all, of the classified programs at the camp. In that interview, questions, questions, questions, he maintained close alliance with the Strategic Services Unit in Frankfurt, which at the tim…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 5 @ 23:32

Strategic Services Unit operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbergs and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam wher…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 30:02

John Magruder headed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“Officers from the Special Operations Branch and Special Intelligence Branch were transferred to a new government organization called the Strategic Services Unit. General Magruder was then placed in charge of it, which was officially formed …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 26:14

John Magruder headed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“the clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 29:29

John Magruder headed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“The clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…”

▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 34:58

CIA absorbed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“Intelligence priorities and missions leading to a proposal for a new organization under the control of the state, war, and Navy departments, with each still retaining individual service intelligence branches. President Truman approved the p…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 30:13

Strategic Services Unit renamed_to CIA book_quoted

“In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, designating it a National Intelligence Autho…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 25:10

Strategic Services Unit member_of William Colby host_asserted

“He's in the OSS, and he goes into Finland, Sweden, and Norway, and he sets up all of their stay-behind units up there. So you have simultaneously Hitler, and he starts his stay-behind unit program called Werewolves in 1942, ironically the s…”

▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 1:17:06

John Magruder headed Strategic Services Unit documented

“Echols, E-C-H-O-L-S, of the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 10:57

Richard Helms member_of Strategic Services Unit documented

“Ralph Kingsley, and Robert Joyce, all of them intelligence officers and diplomats that would play a big role in the future CIA covert operations. Like many of them, Richard Helms stayed on when the OSS became the strategic service unit and …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 33:33

Strategic Services Unit did_business_with Ho Chi Minh book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 30:02

Strategic Services Unit supplied_arms_to Ho Chi Minh book_quoted

“excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbirds and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam, whe…”

▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 35:31

Paul L. Williams member_of Strategic Services Unit host_asserted

“And he worked a lot in China in the opium trade in his first dealings in OSS. That's where he cut his teeth at. And those of you who may or may not know that the England-UK fought two opium wars.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:51:03

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana member_of Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“If he was spoke of at all, it was always as a senior CIA official to say that Santee at the time was an OSS agent, basically meaning that he worked for the Office of Strategic Services headed by Wild Bill Donovan. But as it turns out, Sante…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 11:02

John C. Ballinger member_of Strategic Services Unit book_quoted

“75 kilo gold bars. There were rows upon rows of boxes. Photographs of the ship, along with the report of the cave full of gold, were sent by submarine to MacArthur's intelligence headquarters in Australia. According to Ballinger's son, Gene…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 14:15

James Forrestal member_of Strategic Services Unit host_asserted

“I don't know. When I first heard the whole thing, I thought he was, but he really is a part of this whole thing. If you actually look back at where he was in the, you know, late mid-30s, late 30s, he's part of almost like a William Donovan …”

▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 1:02:44

CIA recruited Strategic Services Unit host_asserted

“the bankers, all of them, and fold them into the CIA. Because it's not coincidental that OSS, in the precursor to the exploitation of all of this vast, worldly, destabilized country in the quote-unquote Cold War, was filled with lawyers, ba…”

▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 2 @ 4:24

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The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history

▶ 34:58 The clandestine officers went to the War Department as a new unit called the Strategic Services Unit under Brigadier General John Magruder, who had been the OSS Special Warfare Chief. So Magruder mandate was not to preserve or enlarge the S…

The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history

▶ 35:31 excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbirds and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam, whe…

The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history

▶ 35:58 on helping him get the Japanese out of Vietnam. In addition to the SSU, the Army Counterintelligence Corps remained as a clandestine operations center and eventually becomes the G2 of the Army. So given the role of the official intelligence…

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)

▶ 33:33 Ralph Kingsley, and Robert Joyce, all of them intelligence officers and diplomats that would play a big role in the future CIA covert operations. Like many of them, Richard Helms stayed on when the OSS became the strategic service unit and …