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THE FOUNDING OF THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS

Studies in Intelligence Vol. 44, No. 2, 2000 Approved for Release: 2018/ (b)(3) SECR OFORN//X1 Moving Up to the Big Leagues The Founding of the Office of Special Operations (U) Michael Warner and Kevin C Ruffner At the end of World War II, the Truman administration dismantled the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), giving most of OSS to the War Depattment for "salvage and liquidation." The foreign intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities of OSS went to the War Department as the...
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Created
Dec 28, 2022
Released
Sep 19, 2018
Publication
Mar 18, 2009
Case number
F-2016-01165

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Metadata

Document #

05374892

Case #

F-2016-01165

Document Type

FOIA

Collection

FOIA Collection

Release Decision

RIPPUB

Original Classification

U

Sequence

Pages

17 pages

File Size

463.84 KB