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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our award-winning short documentary that received accolades from Steven Spielberg and Ken Burns, "Filming Under Fire: John Ford's OSS Field Photo Branch," is an official selection of the Berlin Aurora Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. Watch the trailer here: vimeo.com/892246156?fl...

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Filming Under Fire: John Ford's OSS Field Photo Branch [trailer]

World War II was fought on many fronts. One of them was film. Filming Under Fire: John Ford’s OSS Field Photo Branch tells the story of how Hollywood’s greatest director, John Ford, and many of its le...

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[6/7] 📄 10 pages. Marked SECRET. Sent before the CIA even existed. It's a rare window into how spycraft & commerce were being quietly woven together at the dawn of the Cold War.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[5/7] This was 1946. WWII had just ended. The US intelligence community didn't formally exist yet. Documents like this are the blueprints — the arguments made in real-time for what American intelligence should become.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[4/7] But Vandenberg wasn't proposing a free-for-all. The memo pushed for COORDINATION across State, War, Navy, FBI & ONI — ensuring business contacts weren't being approached by multiple agencies or burned through mismanagement.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[3/7] The logic was simple: American executives, salesmen & traders moved freely through foreign countries — seeing things, hearing things. Why not coordinate that access for national intelligence purposes?

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

2/7] July 29, 1946. DCI Hoyt Vandenberg sent a SECRET memo to the National Intelligence Authority recommending that US companies with foreign connections be formally tapped as intelligence sources.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[1/7] In 1946, the US had no CIA yet — just the Central Intelligence Group. Its first Director was already pitching a bold idea: use American businesses abroad as spy sources. 🔗 intelarchive.com/documents/4b...

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The USAAF P-520 WW2 Crash Boat is now flying an OSS flag.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Legendary OSS and CIA officer Desmond Fitzgerald died OTD 1967. Fitzgerald described an ideal OSS candidate as a “Harvard PhD who could handle himself in a bar fight.”

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[6/7] The cast of this document reads like a WWII thriller: King Peter II, General Wilson (C-in-C Mediterranean), British Brigadier Armstrong, and officers of the Royal Yugoslav Army — all tangled in the Balkans' most complex resistance war.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[5/7] Mihailovic would be executed by Tito's government in 1946. Seitz's mission document — filed to OSS Director William J. Donovan — is one of the few firsthand American records of the man before Allied policy sealed his fate.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[4/7] The British were already shifting support from Mihailovic to Tito. Seitz's report represents the American perspective on a resistance leader the UK was quietly discarding — with enormous postwar consequences for Yugoslavia.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[3/7] His mission wasn't just observation. Seitz navigated a brutal three-way conflict: Nazi occupation, Tito's communist Partizans, and Mihailovic's royalist Chetniks — all while coordinating with British liaison officers from competing political agendas.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[2/7] Lt. Col. Albert Seitz spent six months embedded with General Draza Mihailovic's Chetnik forces under cryptonym MARKE — filing firsthand OSS intelligence at a pivotal moment in Allied Balkan strategy.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

[1/7] In 1943, an OSS officer parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to report on a resistance movement the Allies were about to abandon. His 91-page account is now declassified. 🔗 intelarchive.com/documents/a2a6874b-7992-427a-b9b1-4ecd95150240

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today is Indiana Jones Day. Jones served in OSS. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

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Digging Up Secrets - CIA

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[6/7] This is the documented origin of a blueprint: use nationalist movements — however compromised — as intelligence assets against the USSR. A template repeated across the Cold War for decades.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[5/7] The 25-page SECRET report names cryptonyms KILKENNY & Referat-33 and traces how SSU officer networks in Munich became the seedbed for CIA's postwar émigré recruitment architecture across Eastern Europe.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[4/7] The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was still fighting the Red Army into the late 1940s. That made the UHVR & OUN operationally valuable — regardless of their wartime record. Anticommunism trumped accountability.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[3/7] Key figures: Mykola Lebed (UHVR Foreign Minister) & Stefan Bandera (OUN leader) — both linked to wartime atrocities — became central to CIA operations CAPARISON & BELLADONNA targeting Soviet Ukraine.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[2/7] After WWII, U.S. intelligence (OSS → SSU → CIA) faced a dilemma: the best-organized anti-Soviet networks in Eastern Europe were often the same men who'd fought alongside Hitler.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The most recent episode of the new documentary series on the @HISTORY Channel, “World War II with @tomhanks” - “Secrets and Lies” - about the intelligence war, focuses entirely on the British: Bletchley Park (ULTRA), SOE, Ian Fleming, 30 Assault Unit, and Operation MINCEMEAT.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

OTD 2022 the OSS memorial at Arlington National Cemetery was installed.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

[7/7] Dive into the mind of Cold War intelligence's most controversial figure. What secrets did Gehlen take to his grave? 📄 intelarchive.com/documents/a5... #ColdWar #CIA #DeclassifiedDocuments #History @osssociety.bsky.social

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

[1/7] Celebrating VE Day Anniversary with a thread on OSS contribution. @osssociety.bsky.social 18 OSS operatives parachuted into the Tyrolean Alps to wage guerrilla warfare behind Nazi lines in the war's final months—this is their story 🏔️⚡ intelarchive.com/documents/f9...

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Marlene Dietrich recorded songs for the OSS Morale Operations branch during WWII. In 1951 she got her recording rights back from the CIA. Her correspondence with General Donovan & CIA lawyers is in the Intelligence Archive. @osssociety.bsky.social

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

[7/7] Want to read the testimony that created the CIA? Vandenberg's words changed history and launched the modern intelligence era. Dive into the archives: intelarchive.com/documents/21... #ColdWar #CIA #DeclassifiedDocuments #History @osssociety.bsky.social

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Intelligence Archive

Declassified CIA documents — Albania operations, OSS to Early CIA, U.S. intelligence & former Nazi personnel. 1939–2007.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In 2022, The OSS Society installed this memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to honor OSS personnel who were killed or missing in action. On Memorial Day, we honor their service and sacrifice.

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

4/5: This collection completes the story of how U.S. intelligence transformed the original vision of Donovan for OSS into an intelligence organization for the Cold War. @osssociety.bsky.social

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Albert Lulushi @albertlulushi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

1/4 This week marks VE Day's anniversary. Before the CIA, there was the OSS—America's first centralized intelligence service, operating across wartime Europe. @osssociety.bsky.social

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We are honored our two short documentaries have been selected as finalists by the Military & Veteran Entertainment Awards.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

President Franklin Roosevelt, who signed a military order creating OSS, died OTD 1945. He described OSS founder Gen. William Donovan as his “secret legs.”

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If you are driving in Washington, DC, stay clear of this car.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.” -OSS veteran, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Ralph Bunche

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

OSS received a Congressional Gold Medal OTD 2018. We concur with an official from the US Mint said it was the most beautiful medal in the Mint’s history.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The American Legion was founded OTD 1919. OSS founder General William “Wild Bill” Donovan was one of its founders.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

CNN just showed the OSS and first CIA HQ on Navy Hill in Washington, DC. The OSS Society had this site added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

OTD in 1945, FDR met with King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy in Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. The man kneeling, who served as FDR's translator and arranged the meeting, was the OSS’ legendary Col. William Eddy, USMC, the "Lawrence of America.”

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day from OSS veterans Julia & Paul Child

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Amb. David Bruce, who served as head of OSS Operations in Europe, was born OTD 1898. He is the only person to have served as US ambassador to the UK, France, and Germany. He is shown here with Hemingway before liberating the bar at the Hotel Ritz in Paris on 8/25/44.

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our award-winning short documentary, "Filming Under Fire: John Ford's OSS Field Photo Branch," is an official selection of the Yountville International Short Film Festival. Steven Spielberg thanked The OSS Society for "preserving this history and keeping it in our conversations 80 years later."

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The OSS Society @osssociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A memorial to the OSS Dawes Mission was placed at Mauthausen Concentration Camp in honor of its 13 personnel and @apnews.com correspondent Joseph Morton who were executed there on January 24, 1945.

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