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9 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) United States. Office of Strategic Services.
Arthur J. Goldberg papers, 1793-1995
78,000 items. 296 containers plus 14 oversize and 2 classified. 120.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, lawyer, secretary of labor, and diplomat. Correspondence, case files, certiorari memoranda, legal files, speeches and writings, subject files, reports, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to Goldberg's career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.
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The Office of Strategic Services maps on microfilm collection
microfilmed maps ; various sizes . 96 reels. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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A microfilm collection of maps that were used by The Office of Strategic Services in World War II. The maps provide coverage for all continents with strong emphasis on Europe and Southeast Asia. The maps depict political or physical features. The OSS needed to quickly build a map library quickly and acquired maps represented in this collection from the American Geographical Society in New York. The OSS, the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, was formed during World War II in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other functions of the OSS included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Rhoda Métraux papers, 1837-1997
90,000 items. 224 containers plus 1 classified and 21 oversize. 101 linear feet. 802 digital files (2.2 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist and author. Correspondence, lectures, and writings in both physical and digital format. Physical materials also include field diaries, field notes and notebooks, reports, proposals, minutes, programs, interview transcripts, questionnaires, statistical analyses, artwork and drawings, photographs, maps, census data, projective testing materials, financial records, and printed matter pertaining to Métraux's career as an anthropologist and her professional and personal relationship with anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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Jack S. Kilby papers, 1878-2003
34,500 items. 107 containers plus 21 oversize. 46 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Engineer and inventor. Correspondence, memoranda, patents and related material, drawings, blueprints, transparencies, photographs, subject files, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating primarily to Kilby's inventions and projects while an engineer and later a consultant for Texas Instruments. The papers also document Kilby's work as a consultant and adviser to various companies and organizations.
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Ray S. Cline papers, 1945-1994
24,550 items. 71 containers plus 1 classified. 28.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Analyst employed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, educator, and author. Office files including interviews, press clippings, and judicial and congressional testimony relating to the organization and effectiveness of the United States intelligence community in the 1970s; also organizational files documenting Cline's association chiefly with the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Coalition for Asian Peace and Security, and World Strategy Network.
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Wallace Rankin Deuel papers, 1905-1971
6,500 items. 62 containers plus 1 classified and 1 vault container. 20.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Intelligence officer and journalist. Correspondence, journals, writings, lectures, transcripts of radio broadcasts, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Deuel's career as an intelligence officer during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, as a journalist with the Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and as a foreign intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Daniel F. Margolies papers, 1935-1999
2,800 items. 19 containers. 7.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Nuremberg prosecutor and foreign policy advisor to the President's Science Advisory Committee. Reports, press releases, printed matter, memoranda, photographs, clippings, and other material pertaining chiefly to Margolies's work as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development and other organizations.
William Smith Culbertson papers, 1897-1965
55,000 items. 194 containers plus 2 classified. 78 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat, lawyer and professor of law. Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, government documents, writings, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to Culbertson's career as vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, minister to Romania, ambassador to Chile, chief of the military intelligence service in the War Department, member of the Planning Group of the Office of Strategic Services, and other duties during World War II. Includes papers relating to his law career, lecturer as professor at Georgetown University, and church activities as a Presbyterian.
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Guinea map collection, 1880-1969
2 drawers. 51 folders. 51 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of 51 maps of Guinea -- primarily in French -- concerning administrative and tribal boundaries, city plans, locations of wildlife preserves and natural resources, transportation lines, and other related subjects. These maps make up a small part of the Geography and Map Division's holdings of maps that were acquired before the advent of digital cataloging in the 1970s. The materials date between 1880 and 1969. The maps in this collection came to the Library through a variety of means, including government transfer, purchase, donation, and government agency deposits.