The Agency: Inside the CIA Page #2
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Donovan realized that
if America was going
to win the war, it needed
to have a centralized
intelligence organization
and preemptively to threats.
And I think
he also understood that America
lacked this capability,
gonna be a different kinin
of war. It was gonna
really require
uh conventional warfare,
which is really what OSS
engaged in. The drive
for an American
brand of espionage
came right from the top. It
wouldn't have been created
without, uh, Franklin Roosevelt.
Um, who really, I think,
understood the threat
that Nazi Germany posed
to the United States,
even though many
in... in the United States
didn't feel that way.
And although he and
General Donovan
Roosevelt, of course,
being a Liberal Democrat,
and Donovan being
a very Conservative Republican,
they shared this uncommon view.
The v vw was simple. The
OSS would be a new type
of organization, one that
could inflict damage
the wartime intelligence
arm of the US government,
the covert intelligence
arm, uh, responsible both
for collecting intelligence,
carrying out sabotage,
behind the lines
operations, and so forth.
It was then tasked to Donovan
up this new American spy unit.
General Donovan,
him... once, once said himself
that the major part
of the success of
OSS was the result
of good old-fashioned
intellectual sweat.
the greatest intellectuals
of the day. The
popular conception is
that it was sort of
exclusively the domain
of, uh, Skull and Bones
and aristocratic types,
OSS stood for "Oh So Social"
because so many blue
bloods joined it.
And... and the reason
for that was, uh,
fairly obvious, you know.
These are people who are
well-connected all
around the world,
they were well educated.
Uh, they spoke
foreign languages, and
they knew people,
and if you're looking in
the intelligence business
for people that know
people, that would be
a natural constituency.
But you know,
they... they recruited
from Hollywood.
John Ford was the
head of the, uh,
OSS field photographic unit. Uh,
Sterling Hayden, the actor,
who was a marine,
served in the OSS.
Uh, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. They
recruited writers, artists,
really recruited from every
part of, uh, American society
and culture. With
this new breed
of warriors, Donovan
was determined to make
behind enemy lines, recruiting
resistance fighters,
and causing massive disruptions
of troop movements,
sometimes with Donovan
himself leading the way.
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