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31 Ibid, Melton, 65-66, and McLean, 81-105.
32 For images and a description of the kit for disguising Explosive Coal, see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 70-71.
33 McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen, 137-142.
34 H. Keith Melton, The Ultimate Spy Book (New York: DK Publishing, 1996), 32; Ivan V. Hogg, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms (Secaucus, New Jersey: Wellfleet Press, 1992), 220.
35 For images and a description of the Liberator see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 34-35.
36 Woolworth was a popular “five and dime” store during World War II.
37 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 40. In reference to the special pistol, Lovell recounted a colorful incident in which Donovan fired the weapon in the White House in the presence of President Roosevelt to demonstrate its flashless and silent characteristics. When Gary Powers was shot down in the U-2 aircraft over the USSR on May 1, 1960, he was armed with an OSS .22 caliber silenced pistol.
38 For images and a description of the Stinger see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 29.
39 For images and a description of the Matchbox Camera see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 103-104.
40 Joseph E. Persico, Piercing the Reich (New York: Viking, 1979), 26-31.
41 Ibid, 28.
42 Warner, The Office of Strategic Services, 33.
43 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 56-57. For images and a description of Who Me? see: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 83. The Who Me? formula was a mineral oil solution that used as its active ingredients skatol (from baby diarrhea), n-butyric acid, n-valeric acid, and n-caproic acid. Also see: McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen, 177-178.
44 Jack Couffer, Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1992), 4-7.
45 McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen, 62.
46 Couffer, Bat Bomb, 113-120.
47 McLean, The Plumber’s Kitchen, 62.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid, 61-63.
50 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 84-85.
51 Ibid.
52 Brown, Wild Bill Donovan, 745.
53 David Bruce, Memo to General William Donovan, May 8, 1943. Declassified records of the OSS, MORI ID # 24190.
54 Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War, 337.
55 Lovell, Of Spies & Stratagems, 86. Lovell refers to this, or a similar project, as “Campbell.”
56 Center for the Study of Intelligence, Office of Strategic Services 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, June 2002), XI.
57 Ibid., 11.
CHAPTER TWO
1 Ford, Donovan of the OSS, 302.
2 Ibid., 303.
3 Thomas F. Troy, Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency (Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1981), 282.
4 Ford, Donovan of the OSS, 314.
5 Donovan had hoped to retain OSS or a civilian intelligence service based on the OSS structure after the war. Indeed, he had submitted a proposal to President Roosevelt for such a service, presumably with the intention of heading it. Initially, Truman rejected the idea of a follow-on service, claiming that it would turn into an “American Gestapo.” One measure of the change of perception about the threat posed by the USSR in the immediate aftermath of WWII was the sudden shift in Truman’s thinking during 1946.
6 Ford, Donovan of the OSS, 312.
7 Ibid., 314.
8 Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War, 448
9 Peter Grose, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), 273.
10 Ibid., 11.
11 Ibid.
12 OSO had responsibility for foreign intelligence collection, counterintelligence, covert action, and technical support. OPC had responsibility to conduct paramilitary and psychological operations.
13 Grose, Gentleman Spy, 13.
14 Ibid.
15 Benjamin B. Fischer, “The Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Technical Service, 1951-2001” (Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency: Center