Office of Strategic Services 1942-1945: The World War II Origins of the CIA (Osprey Publishing Ltd,

WW2 Great Spy Stories - The OSS (Part 1 of 3) (15 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbvXlth3kWQ

WW2 Great Spy Stories - The OSS (Part 2 of 3) (15 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBMb7KzsNk

 

WW2 Great Spy Stories - The OSS (Part 3 of 3) (15 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ys3b0F4H8

WW2: O.S.S. IS in Action (1946) (12 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2poMikvM4

 

Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS & Modern American Espionage (1 Hour and 2 Minutes)

Library of Congress lecture on "Wild" Bill Donovan by his Biography: Douglas Waller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKvWxDoygA

 

Otto!
We need an Intelligence Forum here!

Sub Forums can re-direct to ww2talk's:

1. Top Secret Forum

2. Special Forces Forum

3. Commandos Forum

4. SOE & OSS Forum

5. Royal Signals Forum and

6. Signals

 

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

 

Undercover: Identity concealment in the field. (One hour film.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jyfaA9teg

Television Documentary on The O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) (A good 44 Minute film.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZShJy6WhDA

 

Rebecca-Eureka - OSS Blind Bombing homing in on a portable ground beacon.

Office of Strategic Services film on the use of the Rebecca-Eureka system.

Rebecca-Eureka is a simple system designed initially to assist in the delivery of supplies to the Army or Resistance in occupied Europe.
The system expanded into blind homing and approach aid for aircraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N630nJFzAI

 

House of Horrors OSS training at Catoctin (4 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yp8ZrirsLc

 

OSS Final Exam at Catoctin (3 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGfWllyGZg

 

Gutter Fighting training by OSS at Catoctin (4 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvHoOH9I3w

 

WW2: O.S.S. Mission to Giessen (1944) (7 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVpDdU-UrZA

 

Office of Strategic Services film report on a demonstration of "Hobart's Funnies"

A very good film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTP5oBgd50

 

Office of Strategic Services training film demonstrates the use of the Iconoscope to determine actual scale and size of objects shown in oblique photographs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUBdPOAjl4

 

Again, be sure to read the ww2talk.com thread on Special Operations Executive at: http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/25142-special-operations-executive/?view=findpost&p=432925&hl=rescue

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WW2 Technology. The predecessor to the mobile telephone.

OSS Technology Film - Joan and Eleanor (18 Minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycCxRPWPidc

 

Secret Agents - Spies Undercover -1942

Analyzes preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents and spies during WW2
- agents discovered because of inattention to detail, good cover versus bad cover.
Blending into enemy culture and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in enemy country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRtZLuVHY-c