The U.S. military and the CIA failed to agree on implementing a key recommendation of the commission that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks: Give special-operations commandos the lead for all covert military action. The 9/11 Commission ordered the shift in response to concerns that CIA covert action - a mainstay of the agency's World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services - had "atrophied." The agency also had a "risk averse" approach to spying and semisecret military activities.
Zentan, the restaurant in the Donovan House hotel at Thomas Circle, is full of surprises, beginning with its name. The hotel, which replaces the Holiday Inn at the corner of 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, is named for William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the father of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy-and-special-operations predecessor of the CIA. "Zentan" is the Mandarin word for "spy. The restaurant is a surprise, too. It was to have been opened by celebrity chef Todd English as an Asian restaurant, but that never happened. Hong Kong-born chef Susur Lee came from New York to take charge of the kitchen. Mr. Lee began his career as a teenage apprentice in Hong Kong's storied Peninsula Hotel, where he became an expert in regional Chinese cooking.
WASHINGTON -- Barbara Lauwers Podoski, who launched one of the most successful psychological operations campaigns of World War II, which resulted in the surrender of more than 600 Czechoslovakian soldiers fighting for the Germans, died of cardiovascular disease Aug. 16 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington. She was 95. One of the few female operatives in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor to the CIA, she found creative ways to undermine German morale. Much of her work remained secret until last year, when her OSS personnel records were declassified.
... by the Director (petitioner's predecessor) under 102(c). Respondent filed suit against petit...
News Advisory: -- Women's History Month Program on March 24 to Feature Veterans of the CIA's predecessor, Office of Special Services
Objections to Gen. Michael Hayden as CIA director ("Repairing the CIA," Commentary, Saturday) ignore Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision to return William Donovan to active service as a major general to form the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA. He finished service in World War I as a full colonel and earned three Purple Hearts, the Distinguished Service Cross (second- highest award for valor) and the Medal of Honor (highest award for valor), among other awards. Imitating FDR for this appointment signals determination to return an ossified bureaucracy to significance in time of war.
THE ROMNEY CORONATION Polished, agile Mitt Romney is a pollster's darling. Again. A Magellan Strategies/NHJournal.com survey of likely Republican primary voters released Sunday finds that after five televised debates, Mr. Romney tops the presidential hopeful heap with 41 percent of support, followed by Herman Cain at 20 percent. The rest of the field is at a frosty 10 percent or below. But a common battle cry is emerging among Romney doubters.
...The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA; the agency itself was well represented...
...Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA, to rescue downed American pilots. . Th...
In July 2002," the declassified report reveals, a CIA officer "reportedly used a 'pressure point' technique: with both of his hands on the detainee's neck, [he] manipulated his fingers to restrict the detainee's carotid artery." Another agent "watched his eyes to the point that the detainee would nod and start to pass out; then ... shook the detainee to wake him. This process was repeated for a total of three applications on the detainee. Like its Gestapo and SS antecedents, the CIA is highly bureaucratic. CIA employees were informed that "advance headquarters approval is required to use any physical pressures [against prisoners]." And those permissions came from the very top of the chain of command: the White House, which ordered the Office of Legal Counsel and other legal branches o...
... forces and turned over to the OSS, predecessor of the CIA. So it was in the CIA's prisons at Guan...
Don't feel too bad for any golfer who hacks his way into one of the 96 sand bunkers on Congressional Country Club's Blue Course during the U.S. Open this week. No matter how treacherous his plight, he'll have it easier than Betty McIntosh did when she slithered through those bunkers face-down carrying a .32-caliber rifle back in 1945. She was among the thousands of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) trainees sent to Congressional late in World War II to learn the wartime tactics employed by the CIA's predecessor. The pristine landscapes you'll see at the club this week were transformed then by barbed wire, firing ranges and Quonset huts. Instead of golf balls falling from the sky, it was live ammunition.
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