The Agency: Inside the CIA Page #2

Genre: Documentary
Year:
2010
60 min
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Donovan realized that

if America was going

to win the war, it needed

to have a centralized

intelligence organization

that could react quickly

and preemptively to threats.

And I think

he also understood that America

lacked this capability,

and that World War II was

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

were polls apart politically,

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

behind enemy lines. OSS was

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

to recruit members to make

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.

So they, he really sought out

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,

and people often said that

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

a splash. The OSS would drop

behind enemy lines, recruiting

resistance fighters,

and causing massive disruptions

of troop movements,

sometimes with Donovan

himself leading the way.

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