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OSS : the secret history of America's first Central Intelligence Agency
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ISBN: 0520020235 Year: 1972 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press


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Eva and Otto : Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler
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ISBN: 1557538816 1612496148 Year: 2020 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press,

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"Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story."--


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Errand into the wilderness of mirrors : religion and the history of the CIA
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ISBN: 9780226767406 022676740X 9780226767543 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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"Michael Graziano investigates the religious conceptions of those who shaped and worked for the CIA, arguing that the Catholicism of key CIA figures--such as "Wild" Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale--was decisive in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In part this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But conversely, American agents were overly inclined to view other powerful religions and religious figures in the same framework as Catholicism--misconceptions that led, too often, to tragedy and disaster"--


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Information hunters : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
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ISBN: 9780190944612 9780190944636 9780190944629 0190944625 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather foreign publications and information across Europe. They journeyed to neutral cities in search of enemy texts, followed a step behind advancing armies to capture records, and seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools. When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them. In this fascinating account, cultural historian Kathy Peiss reveals how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus of intelligence and national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. Focusing on the ordinary Americans who carried out these missions, she shows how they made decisions on the ground to acquire sources that would be useful in the war zone as well as on the home front. These collecting missions also boosted the postwar ambitions of American research libraries, offering a chance for them to become great international repositories of scientific reports, literature, and historical sources. Not only did their wartime work have lasting implications for academic institutions, foreign-policy making, and national security, it also led to the development of today's essential information science tools. Illuminating the growing global power of the United States in the realms of intelligence and cultural heritage, Peiss tells the story of the men and women who went to Europe to collect and protect books and information and in doing so enriches the debates over the use of data in times of both war and peace.

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Books --- Intelligence service --- Acquisitions (Libraries) --- Cultural property --- Librarians --- Confiscations and contributions --- Military intelligence --- History --- Information services. --- Protection --- Destruction and pillage --- United States. --- Library of Congress Mission to Germany. --- World history --- book history --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- 329.17 <43> --- 351.852 --- 7.025.7 --- 940.53 --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Acquisition of library materials --- Book buying (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library acquisitions --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Collection development (Libraries) --- Counter intelligence --- Counterespionage --- Counterintelligence --- Intelligence community --- Secret police (Intelligence service) --- Public administration --- Research --- Disinformation --- Secret service --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- 940.53 Geschiedenis van Europa: Tweede Wereldoorlog--(1939-1945) (algemeen) --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Tweede Wereldoorlog--(1939-1945) (algemeen) --- 7.025.7 Kunstwerken: verlies, teloorgang door o.a. diefstal of tijdens transport --- Kunstwerken: verlies, teloorgang door o.a. diefstal of tijdens transport --- 351.852 Overheidstaken, administratieve maatregelen i.v.m. musea, verzamelingen, bibliotheken, archieven --- Overheidstaken, administratieve maatregelen i.v.m. musea, verzamelingen, bibliotheken, archieven --- 329.17 <43> Nationale bewegingen. Nationalistische partijen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Nationale bewegingen. Nationalistische partijen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Information scientists --- Library employees --- Information services --- Accession department --- Order department --- O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) --- OSS (Office of Strategic Services) --- Library of Congress Mission --- Library of Congress European Mission


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In secrecy's shadow : the OSS and CIA in Hollywood cinema 1941-1979
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ISBN: 9780748692996 0748692991 9780748693009 9780748693016 0748693009 9781474421935 1474421938 1474425941 0748693017 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the relationship between Hollywood, the Central Intelligence Agency, and its wartime predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. Utilising extensive archival research and interviews with filmmakers and former spies, it documents a revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme0skepticism and paranoia.

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Spy films --- #SBIB:309H1314 --- #SBIB:309H1320 --- #SBIB:309H1331 --- Cloak and dagger films --- Espionage films --- Secret agent films --- Secret service films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Filmwezen: politieke, juridische, ethische, ideologische aspecten. --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- Films met een persuasieve functie (met inbegrip van de propaganda- en reclamefilm) --- United States. --- National Security Council (U.S.) --- Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës --- Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) --- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) --- CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) --- Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü --- National Security Council (U.S.). --- Si Aing Ei --- T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA --- T︠S︡RU SShA --- T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) --- ЦРУ США --- ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) --- Центральное разведывательное управление США --- ארצות הברית. --- 美國. --- In motion pictures. --- Central Illustration Agency --- In motion pictures --- United States --- Office of Strategic Services --- History --- Film --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Los Angeles [California] --- History and criticism --- Filmwezen: politieke, juridische, ethische, ideologische aspecten --- History. --- O.S.S. --- OSS --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. --- AB --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattn --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērik --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerick --- Spojené staty americk --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheirice --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- ZSA --- O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) --- OSS (Office of Strategic Services) --- Motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- ABŞ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- États-Unis --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- É.-U. --- ÉU

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