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#629 - John Lisle - The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII
Modern Wisdom
The Mission of the OSS
The main mission of the OSS is to gather intelligence. It quickly becomes evident that you're going to need this R&D branch that supplies these agents. So Roosevelt would frequently call Donovan, well, he was paralyzed, he couldn't walk. And so he called Donovan my secret legs. This is someone who's going to find stuff out for me and bring it back to me.
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