Veterans of OSS. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 40th Floor, New York NY 10112, Tel: 212-632-3000, Fax: 212-632-3315.

List of Members. 1990. 53 pages.

Addresses are available from this list of about 1000 members. Veterans of OSS is a family affair, as many on the list are members by virtue of their status as a spouse, son, or daughter of an OSS veteran. Some of the names are recognizably CIA, and no doubt also some that we don't recognize. This list could be useful for historians who need to locate potential interviewees or track down documents in private libraries.

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the major U.S. intelligence agency during WW2. Its research branch consisted largely of conscientious humanities and social science liberals from Harvard and Yale. Their sudden access to international secrets, when mixed with inbred academic elitism, proved quite compelling. By war's end, these opinion-makers had become converts to OSS director William Donovan's vision of a postwar agency. Despite Truman's reluctance, Donovan's old-boy network was formalized into the CIA; the pipe-smoking liberal of the thirties became the cold warrior of the fifties. It wasn't until the 1960s that the academic community would begin to recover its social conscience.

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