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programs, such as disguise, were reduced to survival status and development of new tracking systems was limited to a handful of projects. In 1997, the Executive Director intervened to increase OTS’s covcom budget but the first significant new resources in a decade did not come until a 1999 supplemental congressional appropriation funded CIA’s intensified counterterrorism efforts.

5 William Hood, Mole (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1952), 11-16.

6 Charles E. Lathrop, The Literary Spy (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2004), 279.

7 Richard Helms, A Look over My Shoulder—A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Random House, 2003), vii.

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CHAPTER ONE

1 The Medal of Honor, often called the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force that can be bestowed on an individual serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

2 Donovan was initially appointed as director of the OSS’s predecessor, the COI (Coordinator of Information) on July 11, 1941. COI’s name was changed to OSS on June 13, 1942. See: www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art03.htm.

3 Stanley P. Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1963), 21.

4 Ibid., 17

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid, 21.

7 A little over a year later, FDR created the OSRD, which took over weapons research and created another group, Division 19, within the NDRC. Benjamin B. Fischer, The Journal of Intelligence History (Nuremberg, Germany, Vol. 2, Number 1, Summer 2002), 16.

8 Ibid., 21.

9 Ibid.

10 After accepting the position, Lovell wore two hats; he retained his position in the NDRC while heading R&D for OSS.

11 Fredric Boyce and Douglas Everett, SOE: The Scientific Secrets (Phoenix Mill, England: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2003), 5-6.

12 Joseph Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War (New York: Random House, 2001), 114.

13 Ibid., 187.

14 Anthony Cave Brown, Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero (New York: Times Books, 1982), 301.

15 Ibid.

16 Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (New York: Random House, 1998), 408.

17 Corey Ford, Donovan of the OSS (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1970), 135-136.

18 Ibid.

19 Bradley F. Smith, The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 171.

20 Brown, Wild Bill Donovan, 236.

21 Ibid., 185.

22 Michael Warner, The Office of Strategic Services: America’s First Intelligence Agency (Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2000), 8.

23 Boyce and Everett, SOE, Appendix A.

24 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 22.

25 For an illustration and details see: H. Keith Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment: Spy Devices of WWII (New York: Sterling, 1991), 95.

26 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 42. For images and a description of the Firefly see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 85, and Donald B. McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen: The Secret Story of American Spy Weapons (Wickenburg, Arizona: Normount Technical Publications, 1975), 167-171.

27 For images and a description of the Limpet see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 58-59, and McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen, 229-232.

28 Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 97.

29 Ford, Donovan of the OSS, 170; William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 114; Stuart Macrae, Winston Churchill’s Toyshop (New York: Walker and Company, 1972), 7-11.

30 For illustrations and details see: Melton, OSS