Smith,R.H. OSS. 1981
Smith, Richard Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central
Intelligence Agency. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
First published in 1972. 458 pages.
Smith resigned from a brief CIA career in 1968 and began work on this
history of OSS. Although he was not able to obtain access to OSS archives,
he did contact some 200 OSS and State Department alumni. More importantly,
he has the delightful habit of providing hundreds of career updates through
footnotes: so-and-so of the OSS went on to become CIA station chief in
whatever country from this year to that year, etc. -- which makes this
book a NameBase inputter's dream come true.
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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