Only
weeks after the end of the war President Harry Truman signed Executive Order
9621 disbanding the OSS, effective 1 October 1945. With the exception of
R&A transferring to the State Department, and SI and X-2 Counterespionage
to the War Department, the OSS ceased to exist.
As the Cold War became a reality, the need for a
centralized intelligence service reasserted itself. In September 1947 Truman
signed the National Security Act that established the Central Intelligence
Agency; many OSS veterans joined the CIA, including four future directors.
Others stayed in the military, and used their OSS experience to make American
special operations forces the elite fighting units they are today…..To Read More….
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