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OSS Personnel Files Released

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently opened over 35,000 files on more than 24,000 employees of the Office of Strategic Services. This affords the public an unprecedented, detailed look at the wartime lives of those who served in America's first all-purpose, strategic-level intelligence organization. The approximately 750,000 pages now available at NARA's College Park (Maryland) facility describe the worlds of the individual operators, analysts, technicians, administrators, and support personnel who comprised OSS. more>

What's New

September 12 - Director's Remarks at the DNI Open Source Conference 2008.

September 11 - Updated Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. more >

September 10 - Posted Machinist position to the CIA Careers.

September 10 - Message from the Director: Honoring the Victims of 9/11.

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