Office of Strategic Services
History of OSS
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ORGANIZATION: |
Office of Strategic Services |
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ACTIVE DATES: |
1940s |
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PERSONS INVOLVED: |
Burton W. Adkinson; Frederick G. Kilgour; Eugene B. Power; Jesse Shera |
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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. |
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PAPERS AT: |
National Archives, Washington, DC; In NNTA-N, NNSC, NNSM, and NNSP branches. |
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SIZE: |
4,855 cu. ft./11,019 items. |
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Microfilm, maps and charts, motion pictures, sound recordings, and images. |
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SOURCE: |
National Archives (http://www.nara.gov:70/0/inform/groups). |