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Oss And Ww2 Analysis

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The OSS and World War Two
Prior to the United States involvement in World War Two, the American intelligence community lacked a stabilized and centralized outlook. Pre-war intelligence was a product of specific needs and operations that took place in the various departments, such as the branches of the Armed Forces, the Department of State, the Department of Treasury, and the FBI. As a result, the possibility of contradictions, repetitive intelligence, and gaps in certain aspects of various operations was a common occurrence when presenting the products to the President. It is reported that the intelligence community was “poorly and inadequately informed” which was a direct result of the lack of organization these agencies failed to hold …show more content…

Roosevelt, through the signing of a second military order, created the Coordinator of Information (CIA, 2007) which was loosely modeled after Britain’s Special Operations Executive. Headed by William J. Donovan, the COI was the nation’s first peacetime, non-departmental intelligence organization that duplicated some of the functions of the existing agencies, which, in turn, caused issues (CIA, 2007). The civilian office directly attached to the White House was to “(1) collect, review, analyze, interpret, and correlate government information bearing on nation defense; (2) to make available such information to the President and others; and (3) to carry out, as requested by the President, “such supplementary activities” …” (Troy, …show more content…

For one, the bombing of Pearl Harbor exemplifies what can happen when an intelligence community does not work together. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the worst strategic attacks and may have been prevented if information was shared amongst the intelligence agencies. Also, the creation of the COI and OSS displayed how a centralized intelligence community is imperative and would set stone to the CIA. Not only that, but the OSS pioneered spying and sabotage techniques that the Navy SEALs would use (Scott, 2016). In addition, Donovan is responsible for developing the five principles of the CIA: be an independent agency, be able to do overt and covert action, set the tone for how intelligence would be gathered in the community, coordinate all the intelligence community, and have no police powers (Medeiros,

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