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Hace 6 días · – Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, OSS founder “I’m responsible for a group of very dangerous senior citizens.” – Charles Pinck, president of the OSS Society. Ask any American adult about the CIA and there’s a good chance he’ll be able to identify its basic intelligence-gathering functions.
The OSS was founded and led by General William J Donovan, whom history knows as “Wild Bill”. Donovan was born into a poor Irish Catholic family in upstate New York. He experimented with other denominations while a student at Columbia University, though he remained devoted to Catholicism, even after marrying into a rich Protestant family.
13 de may. de 2024 · William J. Donovan, the Director of the OSS, believed in the power of intelligence to shape the world, stating, "In this global war, there is a global front. Every man and woman who gives us information is a soldier working on that front." The OSS’s approach to intelligence was groundbreaking.
Hace 6 días · Donovan Nuremberg Trial Collection. This collection consists of nearly 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and documents from the personal archives of General William J. Donovan (1883-1959).
23 de may. de 2024 · William J. Donovan joined Guardian Technologies as CFO in August 2003 and became President in 2005. Prior to that, he had his own consulting business following his tenure from 1999...
13 de may. de 2024 · There he established a relationship with William J. Donovan and is credited with helping set up and counsel Donovan on the creation of a modern U.S. intelligence apparatus, which in 1941, became the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information.
14 de may. de 2024 · The body of a hiker missing for almost a month was discovered in Dry River, apparently pinned under a boulder. William Donovan, 65, of Cambridge, Mass, who was last seen April 16, was located...
