William Donovan
Also known as Wild Bill Donovan · William J. Donovan
Founder and wartime chief of the OSS; became a director of the World Commerce Corporation in 1947.
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William Donovan
William "Wild Bill" Donovan was the founder and director of the wartime OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the United States' central WWII intelligence service and the institutional forerunner of the CIA. In 1947 he became a director of the World Commerce Corporation, and the newly created CIA "established a liaison officer to maintain contact with Donovan, who continued to be America's master spy" [S1]. A 1952 State Department memorandum records that WCC "retained the legal counsel of General Donovan's firm of attorneys" during its Czechoslovak steel-mill dealings [S2].
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- [S1] "William J. Donovan" (DTIC academic paper) — https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA238145.pdf
- [S2] "FRUS 1952–54 Vol. VIII, Doc. 8" — https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v08/d8
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