#WorldWarII
12 entries tagged WorldWarII.
People (9)
- Charles Marsh Charles Edward Marsh (1887-1964) was a Texas newspaper publisher and early patron of Lyndon Johnson who served as a documented conduit for British Security Coordination intelligence operations in wartime Washington D.C.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945, who led the country through the Depression and most of World War II and authorized the creation of the OSS and the Manhattan Project.
- George Estabrooks Colgate University psychology professor who advocated military and intelligence use of hypnosis to control subjects against their will and wrote the first book on creating hypnotically programmed couriers and assassins.
- Ian Fleming Ian Fleming (1908-1964) served as assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence during World War II, organized the 30 Assault Unit commando intelligence unit, and was a figure in the BSC network whose wartime experience provided source material for his James Bond novels.
- Ira Eaker General Ira Eaker (1896-1987) commanded the 8th Air Force's strategic bombing over Europe and the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, then served as a Hughes Aircraft executive, and appears in unverified Finders-related memos as a connection through whom Marion Pettie received intelligence training.
- Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (1916-1990), best known as a children's author, served as a BSC influence agent in Washington D.C. from 1942 to 1944, penetrating senior American political circles through his relationship with journalist Charles Marsh and later contributing to the official BSC history.
- Stanley Lovell Boston industrialist appointed by William Donovan to head OSS Research and Development, who oversaw the creation of exotic weapons, harassment substances, and assassination plots that directly prefigured the CIA's postwar behavioral programs.
- Walter Langer Cambridge psychoanalyst who produced the first psychoanalytic profile of Adolf Hitler for the OSS in 1943, predicting his suicide and identifying exploitable psychological vulnerabilities.
- William J. Donovan General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959) was the founder and director of the OSS (1942-1945), building it on British Security Coordination templates and establishing the covert operations culture the CIA inherited after Truman dissolved the OSS.
Events (1)
- World War II World War II (1939-1945) is the global conflict from which the modern American intelligence community was born: the OSS became the CIA, Nazi scientists and intelligence officers were recruited through Operation Paperclip and other stay-behind programs, and the organizational networks, personnel, and covert operational culture of the Cold War era were all shaped by wartime arrangements.
Concepts (1)
- Nuremberg Code Code of medical research ethics established by American judges at the 1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trial, requiring voluntary informed consent, which the CIA systematically violated in its MKULTRA behavioral control programs.
Places (1)
- Dachau Nazi concentration camp near Munich where SS doctors including Kurt Plotner conducted mescaline and hypothermia experiments on prisoners, with the results later accessed by U.S. intelligence and used to inform early ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA research directions.