organization:office of strategic services

Vietnam: A Television History; Roots of a War; Interview with Archimedes L. A. Patti, 1981
▻http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3267C58E4C104A54A0AFDF230D618AE6

04/01/1981- Archimedes Patti was an officer in the United States Army and, after World War Two, the Office of Strategic Services. Mr. Patti describes the U.S. position on Southeast Asia during World War Two, and the emerging Vietnamese Independence Movement. He describes his first meetings with Ho Chi Minh and details the assistance of the Viet Minh in the war effort. He recalls the scene in Hanoi after the war and the attempts by the French to recoup their colony. He details his talks with Ho, and notes that the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence was quite similar to that of the United States. He concludes with his views of the Vietnam War from the perspective of one who understood the roots of the conflict and knew how it could have been avoided.

#USA #Vietnam #histoire #guerre

The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov

... one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Inteligence Agency.

The key CIA front was the American Committee for a United Europe (ACUE), chaired by Donovan. Another document shows that it provided 53.5 per cent of the European movement’s funds in 1958. The board included Walter Bedell Smith and Allen Dulles, CIA directors in the Fifties, and a caste of ex-OSS officials who moved in and out of the CIA.

Papers show that it treated some of the EU’s ’founding fathers’ as hired hands, and actively prevented them finding alternative funding that would have broken reliance on Washington.

#UE #Etats-Unis

The #CIA and Drugs, Inc.: a Covert History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/07/the-cia-and-drugs-inc-a-covert-history

The CIA’s involvement in the Far East drug trade began with its predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services, which supplied Iranian opium to Burmese guerrillas fighting the Japanese. This is no secret: General William Peers, commander of #OSS Detachment 101 in Burma, confessed in his autobiography: “If opium could be useful in achieving victory, the pattern was clear. We would use opium.”

#Etats-Unis #drogues #exceptionnalisme ##leadership “#nos_valeurs”