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William Joseph "Wild Bill" [1] Donovan KBE (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. He is best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during World War II.
William J. Donovan January 1954 – November 24, 1959 (Acting) Paul M. Haley November 24, 1959 – January 1960 27th Harold W. Wells: January 1960 – January 1, 1962 Democratic: 28th Lawrence F. Bretta: January 1, 1962 – July 17, 1967 Democratic (Acting) John R. Havican July 17, 1967 [1] – January 1968 29th James F. Brennan
On the suggestion of William Stephenson, the senior British intelligence officer in the western hemisphere, Roosevelt requested that William J. Donovan draft a plan for an intelligence service based on the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Roosevelt was persuaded to create the office several months before the United States entered the war by prominent New York lawyer William J. Donovan, who had been dispatched to London by the president to assess the ability of the British to continue fighting after the French capitulation to German aggression, and by American playwright Robert ...
The later leader of the OSS, Colonel William J. Donovan, was the only senior leader in the US government to have personally visited Korea before the start of World War II. In June 1919, Donovan and his wife landed in Busan, and took a train up to Seoul. Donovan recorded in his diary an overview of Korean history that he learned during the few ...
Wild Bill Donovan may refer to: Bill Donovan (1876–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher William J. Donovan (1883–1959), general and head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
The Veterans of the OSS was founded in 1947 by General William Donovan. [ 1 ] In 1997, the name OSS Society was adopted, and the Society moved to Washington, DC. [ 1 ]
William J. Donovan, the founder of the firm, who during World War II was the head of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.; J. Edward Lumbard, one of the founders of the firm in 1933, prosecutor in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.