Sentence examples for oss agency from inspiring English sources
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), agency of the U.S. federal government (1942 45) formed for the purpose of obtaining information about and sabotaging the military efforts of enemy nations during World War II.
In "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams," Carmen and her younger brother Juni Daryl Sabaraa) -- a loyal sidekick and a royal pain in the neck -- undertake a hectic mission to defend their family honor and save the fledgling Spy Kid division of OSS, the supersecret espionage agency that employs them.
Hayden served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the US wartime intelligence agency.
For Berg was a spy, employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America's first central intelligence agency.
John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman.
William J. Wild Bill Donovanovan, who had spurred Roosevelt into creating an information agency, became head of the OSS upon its founding and was largely responsible for building the organization and for improving its ability to perform economic and political intelligence analysis for senior policy makers.
For decades, the impulse to cut or constrain such secret agencies remained robustly bipartisan, as when President Harry Truman abolished the CIA's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), right after World War II or when President Jimmy Carter fired 800 CIA covert operatives after the Vietnam War.
But the rest of the OSS would have to go.
