OSS REBORN : Office of Strategic Services

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"Political views were irrelevant to the director. He valued creative intelligence, a love of adventure, and a willingness to fight the enemy." - Noel Fitch Riley

"If you define leadership as having a vision for an organization, and the ability to attract, motivate and guide followers to fulfill that vision, you have Bill Donovan in spades." - Fisher Howe, special assistant to General Donovan

"The OSS was a remarkable institution: half cops and robbers and half faculty meeting." - McGeorge Bundy

"It wasn't a spit-and-polish organization. It was a can-do outfit." - Col. William H. Pietsch Jr., USA (Ret.)

"I have never known such a bunch of troublemakers in my life." - Bernard Knox

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June 2010

Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer and the author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA, spoke to The OSS Society at its annual meeting at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD on May 23, 2010. Congressional Country Club served as the primary OSS training facility and was known as Area F.

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