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    1. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015

      #OTD 1945, 70 years ago, #OSS was dissolved. Office of Strategic Services — America’s First Intelligence Agency http://1.usa.gov/1jyJcaB 

      22 replies 107 retweets 113 likes
    2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
      Replying to @CIA

      Before #WWII, collecting & disseminating intel was done by American foreign-policy experts & elements of the armed services. #OSS

      4 replies 41 retweets 35 likes
      CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015

      America’s entry into #WWII, after intel failure of Pearl Harbor, led to #OSS being established on 13 June 1942.

      2:33 PM - 1 Oct 2015
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        2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          President Roosevelt appointed William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan, a highly decorated #WWI officer, as Director of the #OSS. cc @FDRLibrary

          4 replies 37 retweets 36 likes
        3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          Donovan’s #OSS combined research & analysis, covert ops, counterintel, espionage, & technical development—core missions of today’s CIA.

          2 replies 37 retweets 26 likes
        4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          #OSS employed nearly 13,000 men & women at its peak & operated for a little more than 3 years, from 1942 to 1945.

          5 replies 28 retweets 24 likes
        5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          #OSS helped shorten #WWII, save lives in Europe, N Africa & Asia, & left a legacy of daring & innovation that influenced US military & intel

          3 replies 36 retweets 25 likes
        6. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
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          A month after Japan surrendered, President Truman signed an Executive Order terminating the #OSS. Order became effective October 1, 1945.

          2 replies 55 retweets 33 likes
        7. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          Functions of #OSS were split between @StateDept & Department of War, until Jan 1946 when Truman created the Central Intelligence Group. #CIG

          2 replies 46 retweets 59 likes
        8. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          National Security Act of 1947 established 1st US permanent peacetime intel agency, CIA, taking up #OSS & #CIG roles. http://1.usa.gov/1jyJcaB 

          13 replies 59 retweets 56 likes
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        2. Joel L. Watts‏Verified account @eJoelWatts 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          @CIA the good old days... When the U.S government didn't spy on American citizens @Snowden

          2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
        3. Free Honesty‏ @W_FitzW 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @eJoelWatts

          @eJoelWatts @CIA @Snowden the assumption of privacy is over in 1970s it was found no thing transported over public lines is truly privet.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. @realDonaldTrump  🌻 🚩‏ @SocraticGadfly 1 Oct 2015
          Replying to @CIA

          @CIA Shades of 9/11? Of course, that was a failure of higher-ups to listen to intelligence. (Followed by stovepiping of intelligence later.)

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