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The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) [3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda ...
Operations Ginny I and II were two ill-fated sabotage missions conducted by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1944 during the Italian campaign of World War II. Their aim was to blow up railway tunnels that would cut the line of communication to German forces in central Italy. The first mission, Ginny I, occurred on February 27/28 ...
OpenSearchServer, search engine software. Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems. Open-source software, software with its source code made freely available. Operations support systems, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems.
Operations support systems ( OSS ), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System ( OpS) in NTT [1], [2] are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., telephone networks). They support management functions such as network inventory, service provisioning, network ...
The head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), William Donovan, created the X-2 Counter Espionage Branch in 1943 to provide liaison with and assist the British in its exploitation of the Ultra program's intelligence during World War II. [1] A few months before, Donovan had established a Counterintelligence Division within the Secret ...
The Veterans of the OSS was founded in 1947 by General William Donovan. In 1997, the name OSS Society was adopted, and the Society moved to Washington, DC. The OSS Society is currently in efforts with other IC organizations to create a National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations in Virginia.
The OSS Deer Team was established by the United States Office of Strategic Services on May 16, 1945 to attack and intercept materials on the railroad from Hanoi in central Vietnam to Lạng Sơn in northeast Vietnam with the hope of keeping Japanese military units from entering China. They sent intelligence reports to OSS agents stationed in ...
Daniel Oss. Daniel Oss (born 13 January 1987) is an Italian cyclist, who competes in gravel cycling for the Specialized Gravel team. [6] Between 2009 and 2023, Oss competed professionally in road bicycle racing, with Liquigas–Cannondale, the BMC Racing Team, Bora–Hansgrohe and Team TotalEnergies. He took two individual victories in his road ...