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In 1947 Pearson recruited <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAandersonJ.htm">Jack Anderson</a> as his assistant. Over the next few years Anderson was able to use his contacts that he had developed in the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWoss.htm">Office of Strategic Services</a> (OSS) in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China">China</a> during the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm">Second World War</a>. This included <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm">John K. Singlaub</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKclineR.htm">Ray S. Cline</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhelms.htm">Richard Helms</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm">E. Howard Hunt</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwerbell.htm">Mitchell WerBell</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhelliwell.htm">Paul Helliwell</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjohnsonRE.htm">Robert Emmett Johnson</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKconein.htm">Lucien Conein</a>. Others working in China at that time included <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcorcoran.htm">Tommy Corcoran</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwillauer.htm">Whiting Willauer</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpawley.htm">William Pawley</a>.

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The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created by President <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArooseveltF.htm">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> in July 1942. The OSS replaced the former American intelligence system, Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI) that was considered to be ineffective. Roosevelt selected Colonel <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdonovanW.htm">William Donovan</a> as the first director of the organization, who had spent some time studying the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWsoe.htm">Special Operations Executive</a> (SOE), an organization set up by the British government in July 1940.

The OSS had responsibility for collecting and analyzing information about countries at war with the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA.htm">United States</a>. It also helped to organize guerrilla fighting, sabotage and espionage. Some senior US military figures disapproved of the OSS and General <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmacarthur.htm">Douglas MacArthur</a> refused to allow the organization to operate in the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWphilippines.htm">Philippines</a>.

One of the most important OSS operations was run by <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdullesA.htm">Allen Dulles</a> in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWswitzerland.htm">Switzerland</a> who was able to use his base in this neutral country to obtain important information on <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnazigermany.htm">Nazi Germany</a> and the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgestapo.htm">Gestapo</a>.

<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdonovanW.htm">William Donovan</a> was given the rank of major general and during the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm">Second World War</a> he built up a team of 16,000 agents working behind enemy lines. The growth of the OSS brought conflict with <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhooverE.htm">John Edgar Hoover</a> who saw it as a rival to the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfbi.htm">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>.

The OSS was disbanded in October 1945 and was eventually replaced by the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcia.htm">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA).  spart

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services</a>

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Sterling Hayden(under John Hamilton Nom de Guerre)

Julia Child

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Peter J. Ortiz

John K. Singlaub

Walter Lord

E. Howard Hunt

Rex Applegate

Aaron Bank

William Colby

William Casey, CIA Director under President Reagan, was with the OSS during WWII. Not sure if he was a field agent, though.

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OSS supported ho chi mihn  http://www.historynet.com/ho-chi-minh-and-the-oss.htm/1

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