Donovan's Insubordination

Donovan preferred insubordinate officers, saying that he'd rather have a lieutenant with guts enough to obey an order than a colonel too regimented to think and act for himself. The o s s agents were recorded in secret, so no one knew who was o s s and who wasn't. And donan further muddled what his organization was up to by actively bucking standard operating procedures. He would do the thing, they'd give it to him, and then he'd do the opposite of whatever it is that they told him to do.