Any one with information about OSS Mission

[MCFLURY]

Just heard about them in some rag looks interesting

[joshrunkle35]

Just heard about them in some rag looks interesting

Are you referring to the Office of Strategic Services during WWII?

[Historian]

Just heard about them in some rag looks interesting

The history of the OSS, precursor to CIA, is a most compelling story that
will intrigue you. The innovativeness of 'Wild Bill' Donovan, an extraordinary
man, whom Roosevelt picked to start an agency to match British MI-6, is inspirational
to any intel weenie or wannabe. He had to go against J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
in a turf war. [ Pen and smoking tobacco pipe guns; the famous .22 silencenced
weapon, of course; aspirin triggering devices for German baths; etc. ]

All his descendants in Langley, Meade, and across the Anacostia owe much
to Bill Donovan as do all Americans.

Sterling Hayden the actor served in the OSS in the Balkans; Julia Child in the Asia
team.

In addition I highly recommend "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945"
by Leo Marks and the efforts of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Also read "The Hut Six Story" by Gordon Welchman, an extraordinary mathematician
I had the honor of knowing. It was he who applied group theory to the Enigma cypher
and concluded that there were much fewer combinations due to cyclical repetitions
inherent in the cypher wheels. From that Alan Turing used his 1930's theory to
direct the building of the BOMBA computer that decoded German transmissions faster
than the recipients.

All the above are a natural adjunct to the interest of this site.