The Strategic Services Unit was an intelligence agency of the United States government that existed in the immediate post– World War II period. It was created from the Secret Intelligence and Counter-Espionage branches of the wartime Office of Strategic Services .
5-457: Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy was instrumental in preserving the two branches of the OSS as a going-concern with a view to forming a permanent peace-time intelligence agency. The unit was established on October 1, 1945, through Executive Order 9621, which simultaneously abolished the OSS. The SSU was headed by General John Magruder . In January 1946, a new National Intelligence Authority
10-561: The Military Laws of the United States , "The act of August 5, 1882 authorizing the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of War was repealed by the act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stat L., 331) the power conferred by the act of August 5, 1882 never having been exercised," indicating that the post was not filled between 1882 and 1883 (p. 45, footnote 2). In 1940, the new position of United States Under Secretary of War replaced this position as
15-605: The number-two office in the department. Assistant Secretary Robert P. Patterson became the first Under Secretary. The office continued to exercise administrative duties until the department's end in 1947, when the United States Department of Defense was established. This list only includes those persons who served as the Assistant Secretary, or First Assistant Secretary. At various times, there were also "second" or "third" assistant secretaries, ranking below
20-607: Was combined with the Office of Policy Coordination to form the Directorate of Plans . This United States government–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . United States Assistant Secretary of War The United States Assistant Secretary of War was the second–ranking official within the American Department of War from 1861 to 1867, from 1882 to 1883, and from 1890 to 1940. According to
25-676: Was established along with a small Central Intelligence Group. On April 2, 1946, the Strategic Services Unit was transferred to the new group as the Office of Special Operations and a transfer of personnel began immediately. In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency was established under the 1947 National Security Act , incorporating the Central Intelligence Group. In August 1952, the Office of Special Operations
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