Strategic Services Unit
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The Strategic Services Unit was an intelligence agency of the United States government that existed in the immediate post–World War II period. It was created from the Secret Intelligence and Counter-Espionage branches of the wartime Office of Strategic Services.
In January 1946, a new
National Intelligence Authority
was established along with a small Central Intelligence Group. On April 2, 1946, the Strategic Services Unit was transferred to the new group as the Office of Special Operations and a transfer of personnel began immediately.
In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency was established under the 1947 National Security Act, incorporating the Central Intelligence Group. In August 1952, the Office of Special Operations was combined with the Office of Policy Coordination to form the Directorate of Plans.
References
- ^ Michael Warner. "Salvage and Liquidation: The Creation of the Central Intelligence Group". Archived from the original on June 13, 2007.
- ^ Peer de Silva, Sub Rosa. The CIA and the uses of intelligence (1978), p. 4 (Magruder at OSS, SSU).
- ^ John Ranelagh, The Agency (1986), pp. 100-101 (Magruder at OSS, SSU).
- ^ Thomas Powers, The Man who kept the Secrets. Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), p. 28 (Magruder at SSU).
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