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Revision as of 12:42, 5 September 2023

History of OSS

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People

ORGANIZATION:

Office of Strategic Services

ACTIVE DATES:

1940s

ADDRESS:

E-MAIL:

PERSONS INVOLVED:

Burton W. Adkinson; Frederick G. Kilgour; Eugene B. Power; Jesse Shera

MAJOR PROJECTS:

OTHER INFORMATION:

At the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Kilgour and Power dealt with the problem of importing strategic enemy publications for military use. At OSS, Shera experimented with techniques for indexing.

SOURCE:


PAPERS AT:
LOCATION

National Archives, Washington, DC; In NNTA-N, NNSC, NNSM, and NNSP branches.

PAPERS DATES:

SIZE:

4,855 cu. ft./11,019 items.

INCLUDES:

Microfilm, maps and charts, motion pictures, sound recordings, and images.

SOURCE:

National Archives (http://www.nara.gov:70/0/inform/groups).