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OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
s most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was consider...more
Paperback, 456 pages
Published
August 1st 2005
by Lyons Press
(first published 1972)
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This is a good start for anyone wanting a good, basic history of the origins of the American central intelligence establishment in the World War II period with the founding of the OSS and its activities in Europe and Asia. Smith really paints a full picture of the OSS as it really was, full of crazy characters, misfits, communists, monarchists and blueblood aristocrats, all led under the inspiring leadership of Bill Donovan (himself a war hero from the previous world war), who somehow kept toget...more
Kinda boring and more about politics of OSS than actions
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