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"The Office of Strategic Services means what its name implies: every service of a strategic nature, tried or untried, that may be useful to our Army and Navy and Air Force."

William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959)
General
Columbia College 1905, Law 1908
LLD (hon.) 1947

A military hero and confidant of presidents, William J.

"Wild Bill" Donovan was the father of the modern American intelligence service.

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As chief of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of today's Central Intelligence Agency, Donovan developed the espionage techniques that became central to CIA operations. He also trained and mentored men—William Casey among them—who became cornerstones of the postwar intelligence establishment.

Decorated for bravery as commander of a regiment during the First World War, Donovan became an intelligence agent after the war, conducting a mission to Siberia in 1920 on behalf of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.

Roosevelt.