Anonymous ID: ca7a02 April 19, 2020, 6:53 p.m. No.8857624   πŸ—„οΈ.is πŸ”—kun

This is what you are missing on Tik-Tok… lonely chicks dancing in front of the camera advertising their wares and spells, open source, no account required. Courtesy of the CCP.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@officialmstokes/video/6814661163872292102

Anonymous ID: ca7a02 April 19, 2020, 7:21 p.m. No.8857940   πŸ—„οΈ.is πŸ”—kun   >>7992

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Nicknamed the Glorious Amateurs, the OSS employed once and future celebrities, including Hollywood actress Marlene Dietrich, celebrity chef Julia Child β€” and four future CIA directors. At its peak, the OSS deployed more than 13,000 operatives, a third of them women.

 

In addition to being the forerunner of the CIA, the OSS was also the progenitor of the military's special operations branches, including the Army Green Berets and the Navy SEALs. The man who invented SCUBA gear worked for the OSS.

 

Billings traveled to Washington in June to help celebrate the OSS's 75th anniversary. There he met CIA Director Mike Pompeo in an historic State Department office once occupied by the OSS founder, William "Wild Bill" Donovan.

 

"I have heard the tales of daring," Pompeo told Billings as the men shook hands. "Thank you for your service to the country."

 

"We had lost 6,000 feet in 18 seconds."

 

Sitting down with NBC News, Pompeo said the spirit of the OSS animates the CIA.

 

"The targets are different today, the technology is different today," he said, "but the mission β€” to go do the most difficult task on behalf of America's national security β€” remains the same."

 

A statue of Donavan stands at CIA headquarters in Virginia, and OSS personnel are represented among the stars on the lobby wall honoring fallen officers.

 

In 2016, after years of lobbying by the OSS Society, Congress awarded OSS veterans a Congressional Gold Medal.

 

Billings was the pilot for what was known as Operation Greenup, a plan to drop three spies β€” two of them Jewish-Americans β€” into Austria in February 1945.

 

The nighttime flight, in a glossy black B-24 bomber, almost ended in disaster.

 

Related: Peek Inside the CIA's Museum

 

As he approached the drop zone, the high winds forced his plane into a gut-churning descent.

 

"We had lost 6,000 feet in 18 seconds," he said.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/glorious-amateurs-spies-world-war-ii-s-oss-celebrate-birthday-n777661