Contents:
  • The United States prepares for war / Waldo Heinrichs
  • Getting the right stuff : FDR, Donovan, and the quest for professional intelligence / Robin W. Winks
  • The OSS and the development of the research and analysis branch / Barry M. Katz
  • The London Operation : recollections of an economist / Walt W. Rostow
  • The London Operation : recollections of a historian / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • The London Operation : the British view / Robin Brook
  • The OSS and its records / Lawrence H. McDonald
  • Research in OSS records : one historian's concerns / Richard Breitman
  • The OSS : a brief review of literature / George C. Constantinides
  • The OSS in Spain during World War II / Aline
  • Are human spies superfluous? / Peter Tompkins.
  • Behind enemy lines in France / Helen Deschamps-Adams
  • The OSS in Algiers / Arthur L. Funk
  • The OSS and the Italian campaign / Max Corvo
  • Failure of a mission : Robert McDowell in Yugoslavia, 1944 / Dus̆an Biber
  • Artifice : James Angleton and X-2 operations in Italy / Timothy J. Naftali
  • The OSS in France / Fabrizio Calvi
  • From Hitler's doorstep : Allen Dulles and the penetration of Germany / Neal H. Petersen
  • OSS and SOE : an equal partnership? / M.R.D. Foot
  • Mission to Yenan : the OSS and the Dixie Mission / Carolle J. Carter
  • The activities of Detachment 101 of the OSS / James R. Ward
  • Opening the wedge : the OSS in Thailand / E. Bruce Reynolds
  • The legacy of the OSS / William Colby
  • The OSS and Record group 226 : some perspectives and prospects / Bradley F. Smith.