Dick Ellis
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Colonel Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis was an Australian-born British intelligence officer credited with writing the blueprint for United States wartime intelligence agencies Coordinator of Information a
Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis
Dick Ellis in 1919
Isaak Brodsky's The Execution of the Twenty Six Baku Commissars Two British officers can be seen observing the shooting
William Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
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The Office of Strategic Services was the second non-departmental civilian intelligence agency of the United States. It was formed during World War II as the direct successor of the Office of the Coord
Dick Ellis
…British intelligence officer credited with writing the blueprint for United States wartime intelligence agencies Coordinator of Information and Office of Strategic Services, what would become the CIA. For his contribution to the United States in World War II, he received the Legion of Merit from President Harry S. Truman…
William J. Donovan
Dick Ellis
President Roosevelt ordered the creation of the Office of Strategic Services on June 13, 1942
General William J. Donovan reviews Operational Group members in Bethesda, Maryland, prior to their departure for China in 1945.