-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: http://intellit.muskingum.edu/intellsite/wwiioss_folder/wwiiosstoc.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://intellit.muskingum.edu/intellsite/wwiioss_folder/wwiiosstoc.html" >WWII - OSS - Table of Contents</A> ----- WORLD WAR II William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Table of Contents Gen. William J. Donovan Guide to Reference Materials General Overviews: A - L M - Z OSS and the French Resistance Operations against Germany: A - G H - Z U.S. and British Operations in the Balkans Operations in the China/Burma/India Theater Operations in/against Other Countries Research and Analysis Individuals: A - L M - Z For materials on and by Allen Dulles, see CIA/DCIs Training, Equipment, and Propaganda Security ===== from: http://intellit.muskingum.edu/intellsite/wwiioss_folder/wwiiosscbiops.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://intellit.muskingum.edu/intellsite/wwiioss_folder/wwiiosscbiops.ht ml">WWII - OSS - CBI Theater Operations</A> ----- WORLD WAR II OSS Operations in the China-Burma-India Theater Aldrich, Richard J. "American Intelligence and the British Raj: The OSS, the SSU and India, 1942-1947." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 132-164. "The scale of OSS reporting on India's economic and political condition is striking. This underlines how OSS always perceived itself as providing long-term political and commercial intelligence beyond 1945." Caldwell, Oliver J. A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-45. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Constantinides: "[N]othing is discussed in any depth. Caldwell tells some anecdotes from his OSS work in psychological warfare operations, and he touches on one counterintelligence case. If he has more knowledge of intelligence matters, however, he neglects to share it." Dunlop, Richard. Behind Japanese Lines, With the OSS in Burma. New York: Rand McNally, 1979. Wilcox: "OSS veteran recounts experiences." Hilsman, Roger. American Guerrilla: My Life Behind Japanese Lines. New York: Brassey's (US), 1990. [pb] 1991. Clark comment: Hilsman was Director of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research under President Kennedy and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs under President Johnson. He is now professor of government at Columbia University. According to Surveillant 1.2, Hilsman "commanded a battalion of Chinese, Shan, Burmese, and Karen guerrillas that operated behind enemy lines in Burma.... At the war's end, Hilsman led a POW rescue mission to Manchuria -- where the prisoners included his own father." Windmiller, I&NS 6.4, notes that Hilsman served with Merrill's Marauders befor e joining OSS' Detachment 101 in Burma. "[T]his is a very readable description of what it is like to fight a guerrilla war, and what lessons can reasonably be drawn from it." Hogan, David W., Jr. U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II. CMH Publication 70-42. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1992 Table of Contents Chapter 5. Special Operations in the China-Burma-India Theater OSS Detachment 101 GALAHAD The Final Campaigns in Burma The Office of Strategic Services in China The Office of Strategic Services in Southeast Asia MacDonald, Elizabeth P. Undercover Girl. New York: Macmillan, 1947. Constantinides: This is "one of the earliest works on OSS Morale Operations (MO) and MO work in China and from India." But that is "secondary to what she revealed of the organization and personalities of OSS in Washington, China, and Southeast Asia.... Her trained journalist's eye caught a number of humerous incidents and the subtleties of OSS personalities." Peers, William R. [Lt. Gen.], and Dean Brelis. Behind the Burma Road: The Story of America's Most Successful Guerrilla Force. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. According to Pforzheimer, Peers commanded OSS Detachment 101 which operated behind Japanese lines in Burma. The unit conducted both paramilitary and tactical intelligence collection operations. Constantinides notes that the emphasis here is on the "strategic and tactical picture of both military and paramilitary operations," with intelligence activity receiving lesser treatment. Ward, James R. "The Activities of Detachment 101 of the OSS." Special Warfare, Oct. 1993, 14-21. Windmiller, Marshall. "A Tumultuous Time: OSS and Army Intelligence in India, 1942-1946." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligen ce 8, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 105-124. Army G-2 was the first U.S. intelligence organization in India, in the form of a Military Observer Group (the "Osmun Group") in February 1942. Establishment of an OSS contingent was slowed by British intelligence objections. In April 1942, OSS activated Detachment 101, but its activities were directed toward Burma. Gandhi launched the "Quit India" movement in August 1942 -- tumult followed, along with British concerns that the Americans would use their intelligence activities against British interests in India. Agreement for OSS to operate in India was not reached until August 1943. Problems with the British were compounded by turf wars among the Americans themselves. Nonetheless, it is clear that OSS from early on violated the British-American agreement and gathered intelligence in India. Yu, Maochun. 1. "OSS in China -- New Information About an Old Role." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 75-96. "Newly-available Chinese and English documents ... furnish a key to understanding the extraordinary harshness with which OSS was treated by the [Nationalist] Chinese. OSS's embryonic tie with the British cost Donovan dearly in China.... [Yet,] relations between British and American intelligence in wartime China were never without mutual animosity.... [Also, the ineffectiveness of U.S. intelligence operations in China was affected by] the extraordinary ... competition for turf in the China theater among the American intelligence branches themselves.... The richness of the [OSS operational] files indicates that ... OSS was by no means a failure in the China theater.... The central question of command also plagued U.S.-China cooperation." 2. OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Yager, WIR 16.2, says that the author has told his interesting story well. However, Yu's "interpretations of events and his evaluations of personalities will not be accepted by all readers." In addition, there is an "occasional assertion of generalizations that go beyond the historical evidence." But the author "correctly sees the competing goals of the major actors in wartime China as constraining and complicating possibilities for cooperation.... He does not pay much attention, however, to what various parties actually did in the intelligence field." Similarly, Leary, JAH 84.2, notes that "missing from the book is a treatment of what OSS accomplished in China," especially against Japan, the primary intelligence target. Nonetheless, Yu provides "an authoritative account of OSS's organizational structure in all its complexity." Iriye, History 26.1, refers to Yu's "massive research in U.S. and Chinese sources," and to the author's telling of his "fascinating story ... in clear prose." For Del Bianco, Parameters, Summer 1998, this book is "easily the most compreh ensive examination to date of OSS activities in China during World War II." Yu makes a "straightforward presentation of nationalistic rivalries and service parochialism that constantly thwarted OSS operations in the theater.... The most serious concern is the perception of occasional overreliance on official source material, not only to describe OSS activities in China, but as the exclusive criteria to interpret why or how certain events did or did not transpire." Kruh, Cryptologia 23.1, says that this "well written and thoroughly researched book ... opens a curtain on the intrigue and discord among the multitude of organizations in the theatre." E—ę´ p7‘ ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. 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