Images are text describing The beginnings of the OSS (CIA during WW2), from the book, A Guest Of The Reich, by Peter Finn. The reason I recommend it is not for the reasons intended by the author and publisher. The book is about American heiress Gertrude Legendre as the first American woman in uniform (rank of Army officer, without going through officer training) taken prisoner by German forces during WW2. The author is a national security editor for the Washington Post, and the publisher which caters to the left wing and urban liberals. What makes this book a relevant read is the sourcing, directly from the book subject herself. A woman of leisure because of her inherited wealth (billionaire by today's standards), she recorded the details of her life in journals, plus saving all documents, letters and photos throughout her long life. That vast collection is now part of a university library as a resource into that time period of American history. It is from that collection the book was well crafted by the author.
Perhaps the most telling in the book, is her own description of the very beginnings of the OSS. The included photo of those relevant paragraphs says it all. The sort of people she describes is what we are dealing with in our out of control clown intelligence services. She calls them "crocks."
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-guest-of-the-reich-peter-finn/1131303272#/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?464774-1/a-guest-reich
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-14-mn-8715-story.html