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
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.
Central Intelligence Agency
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The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intel
Office of Strategic Services
…Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the intermediary precursor to the independent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the United States Army Special Forces, colloquially known as the "Green Berets". On December 14, 2016, the organization was collectively…
George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia
In 2015, under the tenure of John Brennan, the CIA underwent its largest organizational restructuring since its founding in 1947.
The 140 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the CIA headquarters, each representing a CIA officer killed in action
CIA director Allen Dulles on the cover of Time magazine in 1953