Max Boot lobbies House to bring back OSS
STATEMENT OF MAX BOOT BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE
ON TERRORISM, UNCONVENTIONAL THREATS, AND CAPABILITIES JUNE 29, 2006
>https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/2006_hr/060629-boot.pdf
OSS was disbanded after World War II; both the Green Berets and
the CIA trace their lineage to this august ancestor. My proposal is to recreate OSS by bringing together under one roof not only Army SF, civilaffairs, and psy-ops but also the CIA’s paramilitary Special Activities Division
What is OSS
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) … On September 20, 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9621, terminating the OSS
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services