CIA • 2009
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...
U
Declassified
Timeline
- 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
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Pages
17 pages
File Size
463.84 KB