Office of Strategic Services

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File:Office of Strategic Services.jpeg An OSS training film
Successor	Strategic Services Unit
Formation	June 13, 1942
Extinction	30 September 1945
Leader	Head of the Office of Strategic Services
Type	intelligence agency
Staff	13,000
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Precursor to the CIA.

The Office of Strategic Services was an intelligence agency set up during World War II. Its head William Donovan had been close to the British Security Coordination (BSC), which was instrumental in the Office's creation. Many BSC agents and collaborators became involved with the OSS.

US President Truman ordered the OSS disbanded on 20 September 1945. However, on 26 September, Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy which preserved its operations as the Strategic Services Unit, keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the Central Intelligence Agency.

World War 2

In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralise enemy soldiers. Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project. The branch opened a music department in New York City, used the services of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, and wrote and recorded black lyrics for 312 German and US songs as well as specially created pieces. A day’s typical 12-hour broadcast included news from the fronts, air-raid warnings and bomb damage reports, political commentaries, and German domestic news.