Intelligence

OSS

Office of Strategic Services, US wartime intelligence 1942–45; predecessor of the CIA.

Ties

ToRoleYearsVerdictSource
CIApredecessor1947Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org

Tied from

FromRoleYearsVerdictSource
Donovan moved OSS files to Rockefeller Center and Dulles then co-founded the World Commerce Corporation with MI6 staff incl. Ian FlemingnamedStructural
Lansdale-OSS recovered part of a 176-trove, ~$1.2T Japanese gold hoard in the Philippines, placed in a BBH-run Geneva trust to fund covert opsnamedStructural
Skorzeny was president of the WCC, a Caribbean shell network led by ex-Nazis and descended from OSSnamedStructural
Allen DullesBern station chief1942–1945Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
William J. Donovanfounder and director1942–1945Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
Frank Wisnerhead of OSS Bucharest (from Aug 1944); SI chief Istanbul; then Wiesbaden1943–1945Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
James Jesus AngletonX-2 counterintelligence, London and Rome1943–1946Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
Paul Helliwellofficer (China)1943–1945Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
William CaseyWWII officer1943-1945Documented · occurredWalsh ch.15
In 1978 William Casey sought OSS records from CIA under FOIA for a book, and CIA declined to give him special priorityrecords sought1978Structuralcia.gov