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  • Office of Strategic Services
  • Office of Strategic Services
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  • The Office of Strategic Services or OSS, are the main protagonistic faction in all Medal of Honor games prior to Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault.
  • Although largely offset by the CIA, the OSS continued to exist and operate even after World War II, usually providing a more domestic approach to keeping Communism subdued; thus their niche was focused on covert operations within the bounds of America rather than beyond its borders. Often masking as commoners within America, OSS agents would often infiltrate groups deemed to be "un-American" by Congress, such as the American Peoples' Socialist Movement and Organization For A More Democratic Democracy.
  • The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the predecessor to the modern day Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Office of Strategic Services var en amerikansk underrättelsetjänst och föregångaren till CIA. OSS bildades under andra världskriget i juni 1942. Under 1944 utförde OSS en operation mot Ahnenerbe och förde Stargate till USA från Tyskland. (RPG: "Stargate SG-1: Friends and Foes: Stargate Season Two")
  • The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed in 1942 during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was responsible for intelligence gathering, training local resistance movements, and counter-espionage. After the war, it was dissolved, and much of its functions became part of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Before the creation of the OSS (the equivalent of British Secret Intelligence Service), The affairs of the intelligence service were distributed among the different departments of government United States without any coordination. Thus, for example, the Army and Navy used different codes to decipher the secret messages.
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  • The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the predecessor to the modern day Central Intelligence Agency.
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Games
  • Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Medal of Honor: Infiltrator, and Medal of Honor: European Assault
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  • 1942
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  • Defunct
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  • Office of Strategic Services
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  • United States of America and Allies
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  • Office of Strategic Services
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  • G.I. Combat #192
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  • Secret
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  • Earth-One; Earth-Two; New Earth
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  • The Office of Strategic Services or OSS, are the main protagonistic faction in all Medal of Honor games prior to Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault.
  • Although largely offset by the CIA, the OSS continued to exist and operate even after World War II, usually providing a more domestic approach to keeping Communism subdued; thus their niche was focused on covert operations within the bounds of America rather than beyond its borders. Often masking as commoners within America, OSS agents would often infiltrate groups deemed to be "un-American" by Congress, such as the American Peoples' Socialist Movement and Organization For A More Democratic Democracy.
  • Before the creation of the OSS (the equivalent of British Secret Intelligence Service), The affairs of the intelligence service were distributed among the different departments of government United States without any coordination. Thus, for example, the Army and Navy used different codes to decipher the secret messages. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt concerned about the shortcomings of the intelligence service of the United States, and advised by the Canadian military and spy William Stephenson instructed his friend William Joseph Donovan, A veteran of the World War I the creation of an intelligence service. His work was compiled in the "Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information", then Donovan was named Coordinator of Information "in July 1941. Thus was established the Office of Strategic Services, due to an order issued by Roosevelt in June 13 of 1942, Thinking at first to collect and analyze information of the General Staff of the United States, and conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.
  • The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the predecessor to the modern day Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Office of Strategic Services var en amerikansk underrättelsetjänst och föregångaren till CIA. OSS bildades under andra världskriget i juni 1942. Under 1944 utförde OSS en operation mot Ahnenerbe och förde Stargate till USA från Tyskland. (RPG: "Stargate SG-1: Friends and Foes: Stargate Season Two")
  • The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed in 1942 during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was responsible for intelligence gathering, training local resistance movements, and counter-espionage. After the war, it was dissolved, and much of its functions became part of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
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