OWI and the Secret Ledger of German Social Decay
The blueprint for wartime propaganda stayed hidden in a series of reports on Germany, though the actual operations derived from them remain blacked out.
By Marcus Boone ·
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"These are the French" and the OSS Audit of a Nation's Soul
Maintained by the Office of the Chief, the records of the ETO Field Office show how the OSS reduced the French population to a set of sociological variables to be managed after the invasion.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Missionaries and Black Markets in the X-2 New Delhi Files
The X-2 branch tracked everything from gambling to Irish priests, yet the most vital secrets—the identities of the moles within their own walls—remain absent from the record.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Donovan, Hartshorne and the OSS Skeleton Files
Kept secret for decades, the records of the Strategic Services Unit preserve the training and the personnel but excise the blood and the betrayal of the first American spy agency.
By Vera Kessler ·
OSS Outposts and the Secret Price of Allied Governments
Hidden within the Europe-Africa Division's custody, these files mask the movement of black budgets and the installation of stay-behind networks across Southeast Europe.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Italy’s Hidden Outposts and the R&A Personnel Ledger
Analysts in Italy watched the Mediterranean Theater while their own names were indexed for a coming war, a record preserved in a finding aid that masks the ghosts of the field.
By Constance Bell ·
Forged Sheet Music and the OSS War to Break Axis Morale
Axis soldiers were broken by forged toilet paper and fake radio broadcasts, a campaign of lies documented in curated exhibition panels and kept from public view for decades.
By Theo Marchetti ·
WDICC Files and the Secret Ledger for Mediterranean Sabotage
These files were kept secret as state archives while the architects of WWII clandestine warfare rebranded sabotage as cooperation and erased the names of agents who died in the field.
By Desmond Okafor ·
March 1, 1946 and the Erasure of the Intelligence State
The reorganization of the War Department left a trail of sterile charts and missing budgets, masking the transition of clandestine assets into a shadow bureaucracy kept secret for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Plan BOSTON and the Deceptive Warfare of the China Theater
Kept under Top Secret classification for decades, the records of the OSS in the China Theater leave a calculated void where the orders and the payments for Plan BOSTON should be.
By Harlan Pryce ·
OSS Resource Maps and the Blueprint for Post-War Asset Seizure
Kept as internal intelligence before becoming a public atlas, these maps charted the industrial veins of nations to be dismantled or dominated.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Roman War Plans and the OSS Personnel Ledger
German and Italian military planners met in Rome to coordinate North African strikes, yet the men who fed this intelligence to the OSS remain obscured.
By Constance Bell ·
State Governors and the Secret Logistics of the US Military
For decades, a paper trail of 'motor carrier safety' hid a direct line between the White House and the Pentagon that bypassed the Department of Defense to move assets through state corridors.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Caserta, Lisbon, and the Paper Trail of a Vanishing Intelligence Machine
The names of the assets who burned in the field are gone, replaced by the sterile logistics of a machine that rebranded itself three times to protect its secrets.
By Vera Kessler ·
The Red Cross and the 1940s OSS Cover in China
Kept secret for decades, the US record groups humanitarian aid with espionage, exposing how the Red Cross served as a cloak for covert operations in China.
By Desmond Okafor ·
OSS Maps and the Seizure of the Third Reich’s Financial Nodes
For decades, the precision with which the US mapped the Third Reich's internal organs remained obscured, hiding the logic used to decide which officials were burned and which were bought.
By Harlan Pryce ·