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	William Donovan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donovan was a member of the New York City "Establishment," a powerful Wall Street lawyer and a Columbia Law School classmate (1908) (but credited to 1907) of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, although they were not close at the time.
		In 1912, Donovan formed and led a troop of cavalry of the New York State Militia, that in 1916 served on the U.S.-Mexico border in the Pancho Villa campaign.
		Donovan died on February 8, 1959 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. at the age of 76, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Donovan (1101 words)

	William Donovan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Donovan was a member of the New York City "Establishment," a powerful Wall Street lawyer and a Columbia Law School classmate (1907) of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, although they were not close at the time.
		In 1912, Donovan formed and led a troop of cavalry of the New York State Militia, that in 1916 served on the Mexican border in the Pancho Villa campaign.
		Donovan died on February 8, 1959 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/William-Donovan.htm (909 words)

	Mark Riebling -- WEDGE: Donovan
		Wild Bill tended to be an enthusiast, to think too broadly, to start projects and not follow through.
		Donovan was a soldier-jock with a curious mind; he not only seemed to have stepped from Plutarch's tales of ancient heroes, but had actually read, dog-eared, and underlined them.
		Donovan sent his letter to the President on June 10; the move was a part of a carefully timed gambit, and coincided with a British intelligence mission, that very evening, into the White House.
	www.markriebling.com /donovan.html (1892 words)

	The Doughboy Center: Donovan: From Fighting Irishman to Spymaster
		Donovan, scouting all the way up to the wire and decked out in all his officer’s regalia to be identifiable to his men, calmly ran about the battlefield to check each company and buck up the men.
		Donovan himself was sent packing by fellow WWI vet Harry Truman (no Donovan admirer), but most of the general’s plans were put into action with the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Donovan, who intimately knew the hairline difference between a war crime and the horrors of war heaped on an officer, eschewed the hypocrisy that such prosecution would require of himself.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/wjd.htm (2413 words)

	Nuremberg trial records, papers of William Donovan
		William J. Donovan has been called "the father of American intelligence," but before founding the OSS, which was the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, he had already distinguished himself as a college football hero (he earned the name "Wild Bill" as a star quarterback at Columbia University), soldier, lawyer and politician.
		Donovan's activities during and after the war -- attempts to assassinate Hitler, dealings with spies of all (and no) loyalties, forays into the Vatican and Stalin's Russia, interrogating Nazi leaders, including Goering and Speer, taking testimony from victims of the Holocaust -- are still subject to debate by historians.
		Donovan kept them in the offices of the New York law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton and Irvine, of which he was a founding partner.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/98/10.29.98/Nuremberg.html (1105 words)

	Legends of the Game
		BILL DONOVAN Donovan, William Edward "Wild Bill" b: 10/13/1876, Lawrence, Mass.
		Donovan was accused of having some knowledge of the attempt to throw the 1919 World Series but was vindicated by Commisioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and sent an apology from his accuser, Wm.
		Bill died, tragically, in a train wreck in 1923 and was eulogized by many as being one of the most popular baseball men of his era.
	www.deadball.com /donovan.htm (185 words)

	Beating the Terrorist Challenge
		In his time, Donovan recognized before most of his contemporaries that the United States confronted a historic challenge in the fascist, militarist threat — a threat that demanded new ways of doing business, new partnerships at home and abroad, and new ways of waging war.
		Of course, much improvement is needed and many barriers remain to be cleared, but, overall, I think "Wild Bill" Donovan would have been pleased with the way we have responded to the challenges of the past year.
		The war against terrorism is exactly the sort of conflict "Wild Bill" Donovan — the soldier, lawyer, intelligence czar, and diplomat — would have understood in his bones.
	www.state.gov /s/p/rem/13207.htm (2976 words)

	Law Library News, April 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His service in France during World War I earned him the nickname "Wild Bill" -- as well as the Medal of Honor -- when he led his men in an attack on a heavily fortified position and refused to be evacuated despite multiple machine-gun wounds to his legs.
		Donovan was instrumental in the creation of the Joint Army Navy Intelligence Studies (JANIS), the first interdepartmental program designed to provide wartime strategic basic intelligence.
		For more information regarding Wild Bill Donovan and the establishment of the CIA, you may want to read Donovan and the CIA : A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, by Thomas F. Troy (Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1981).
	lib.law.washington.edu /news/2004/Apr0122004.html (704 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Wild Bill' Donovan
		Another of Donovan's staff is honored today by a statue in the center of Times Square right along with George M. Cohan.
		William J. Donovan served as presidential agent, national intelligence director, ambassador, leader of a renowned law firm and assistant attorney general of the United States.
		As Donovan led his regiment down 5th Avenue, it was lined with 6,000 police and 1.3 million other people.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29722 (1374 words)

	Wild Bill Donovan \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Donovan was durable, and needed to be; due to wildness, he threw more pitches than most hurlers.
		June 6, 1906: Bill Coughlin is the 2nd Tiger within a month to steal 2B, 3B, and home in a game; he does this in the 7th inning against Washington during a 13-4 romp.
		Donovan was a pitcher for Detroit and ML manager for the Yankees and Phils.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Donovan_Wild_Bill.stm (1051 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		"Wild Bill," as he was known to many, was the ideal man for the task.
		As one soldier put it, "Wild Bill is a son of a bitch, but he's a game one." During combat he could be found where the action was hottest, defying bullets, shrapnel, and poison gas to keep his men together.
		Donovan's fame led the U.S. ambassador to Japan to ask him in 1919 to accompany him to Russia as an observer and advisor during the civil war raging in that country.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14840 (1071 words)

	RealClearPolitics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Known as “Wild Bill” – and for good reason – Donovan didn’t tell FDR that he needed ten years to get the new intelligence service up and running.
		Donovan’s search for talent took him into the business community, the academic world, and into the country’s leading scientific and technical establishments.
		By the time a mortally-ill Bill Casey was carried from his office on a stretcher – literally – the Soviet Union was on its knees.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/com-5_27_05_HM.html (1909 words)

	William J. Wild Bill Donovan, Major General, United States Army
		Lieutenant Colonel Donovan personally led the assaulting wave in an attack upon a very strongly organized position, and when our troops were suffering heavy casualties he encouraged all near him by his example, moving among his men in exposed positions, reorganizing decimated platoons, and accompanying them forward in attacks.
		Perka said that although Mary Donovan Hudson was to attend her father's memorial service on Sept. 20 (the woman’s father, David R. Donovan, died Sept. 8 after a long battle with cancer), she started the day in good spirits.
		According to Clarke County Commonwealth’s Attorney Suzanne M. Perka, the death of Mary “Mimi” Donovan Hudson, 50, was caused by a gunshot wound to the head with a.22-caliber Magnum single-action revolver.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /wjodonov.htm (7809 words)

	WWII - OSS - Donovan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Corey Ford's Donovan of OSS is readable and not dramatically inaccurate as far as it goes.
		Wild Bill and Intrepid: Bill Donovan, Bill Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA.
		The author concludes that Donovan was deceived in the first trip by the Italians and in the second by the British.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /wwii_folder/wwiioss_folder/wwiiossdonovan.html (1308 words)

	Ty Cobb's Greatest Thrill in Baseball \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Manager Hughie Jennings selected Wild Bill Donovan to face the A's, and Mack picked spitballer Jimmy Dygert, holding "Gettysburg" Eddie Plank in reserve for the second game.
		Yet Detroit was unable to hold their advantage, a wild pitch allowing Philly to tie the score again at 9-9.
		The raucous Wild Bill was mowing down the Athletics with great precision and the two clubs remained deadlocked through 13 innings.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Holmes_Dan1.stm (802 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Joseph Donovan (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent him on foreign missions, and in 1942 he was made head of the newly created OSS, which he made into a formidable and successful intelligence agency.
		Donovan, given the rank of major general, served until 1945, and later returned to public service as ambassador to Thailand (1953–54).
		His enthusiasm for covert operations and paramilitary interventions helped shape the psychology of the Central Intelligence Agency, which replaced the OSS as the premier U.S. intelligence agency in 1947.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Donovan.html (260 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter
		Donovan was born in Buffalo and developed his love of learning and deep interest in the world as a student at Niagara University.
		Donovan's law practice was fabulously successful and he was one of the finest appeals attorneys in the nation.
		Donovan didn't care where you came from as long as you were committed and could help.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /gallagher32.html (1127 words)

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		Donovan had long had important intelligence connections with the Roman Catholic Church.
		Donovan's justification for the expenditure of special funds on such tracts was that they provided a valuable insight into the thinking of the Vatican, an institution of immense global political importance.
		Donovan was decorated in July 1944 by Pope Pius XII with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, "the Vatican's highest award, for a lifetime of public and secret service to the [Roman] Catholic Church".
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/wildbhhyde.html (1042 words)

	Ratlines
		Donovan recruited several of his former law partners, among these were Otto Doering, James Murphy and Ned Buxton.
		Dulles conned Wild Bill Donovan into serving on the board of World Commerce Corporation, a company that was to help rebuild Germany as a buttress to communism along with Dulles and Sir William Stephenson from British intelligence.
		Congress has passed a bill to release all information on war criminals, but some agencies notably the State Department, the CIA and Department of Defense are still raising objects on the grounds of national security.
	www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/ratlines.htm (20633 words)

	Trails; The Yacht Yankee; Artifacts at the 7; A New Eyewitness; Bevington's Recollections
		Donovan was not yet the head of OSS (though he did have FDR's ear on a number of current issues) and his wife truly was recuperating from surgery.
		Not until October 13, 1939 did her doctors give Ruth [Bill Donovan's wife] a clean bill of physical health, but it was evident that she was depressed and needed a complete change of air, scenery, and companionship.
		That she discussed with David [her brother in-law, Bill's brother] the twenty-second, when she announced that the schooner Yankee was sailing for the Pacific and she would like to sail with it.
	www.tighar.org /forum/Highlights61_80/highlights77.html (8186 words)

	Knights of Malta
		The founding fathers of the CIA William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles were knights, as were many other CIA hierarchy including Ronald Reagan's director William Casey and JFK's director John McCone.
		It is historically un-American to side with the aristocratic powers of Europe against the common man. Donovan's motives for fighting the Bolsheviks could only have been due to his Vatican/Knights of Malta allegiances, as at this time the Russian Revolution was no threat to the American Republic.
		As a consequence in July 1944 Pope Pius XII awarded Donovan the 'Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester', the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods, and the highest Catholic award ever received by an American.
	www.geocities.com /newworldorder_themovie/knightsofmalta.html (1702 words)

	American Heroes
		The Tigers' main pitchers were Ed Summers, 24-12 ERA of 1.64 and 'Wild Bill' Donovan, 18-7 with an ERA of 2.08.
		On October 7, 1908, the Detroit Tigers clinched the American League Pennant as 'Wild Bill' Donovan pitched a two-hit shutout in Chicago beating the White Sox 7-0.
		In 1907, 'Wild Bill' Donovan posted a 25-4 record,.862, the 4th highest percentage in AL history.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=31 (2379 words)

	Cornell News: Donovan Nuremberg trial records
		ITHACA, N.Y. -- Many of the personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell University Law Library, where they will be accessible to researchers, thanks to the efforts of New York lawyer and Cornell alumnus Henry Korn.
		Some of the documents bear Donovan's personal annotations, and many are marked "Top Secret." The material includes transcripts in German and English as well as background memoranda and evidentiary analysis of the defendants.
		Donovan kept them in the offices of the New York law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, of which he was a founding partner.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Oct98/nuremberg.transcripts.korn.html (1013 words)

	[No title]
		Lankford, Nelson D. “’Wild Bill’ Donovan’s D-Day Capers on Normandy Beach.” Virginia Country XII (No. 1, 1989): pp.
		Troy, Thomas F. Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/ReferenceBibliographies/Biographies/donovanwilliam.doc (135 words)

	The Fighting 69th (1940 b 79') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Donovan says Americans fought but became one people, and he has a rainbow division.
		Donovan calls in Plunkett for a transfer but says Duffy wants to give him another chance.
		Donovan, Kilmer, and Duffy were based on real people in this unabashed propaganda film aimed at preparing Americans for another world war against Germany that nonetheless reveals the horrors of war, the importance of discipline for military success, and the ultimate refuge of religion.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1940/Fighting69th.html (431 words)

	W.E.B. Griffin - The Books - Men At War
		Donovan, a WWI Medal of Honor recipient, possesses the rare talent that causes men to eagerly carry out orders they would not accept from anyone else.
		Answerable only to FDR, Wild Bill Donovan handpicks his young and daring members of the OSS, assembling them under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then dispersing them throughout the world to conduct covert operations.
		In Washington, a frustrated Donovan knows that if Canidy is taken prisoner it risks losing the race to build the atomic bomb—and the war.
	www.webgriffin.com /menatwar.html (575 words)

	Memorializations "D" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fort Bragg, NC MG William "Wild Bill" Donovon, William Donovon, born on New Year's Day 1883 in Buffalo, NY, was primarily interested in athletics, religion and oratory while growing up.
		At Columbia, Donovan was the star quarterback, earning the nickname "Wild Bill." Donovan was required to complete the requirements for a BA from Columbia College, before he could matriculate Columbia University Law School.
		At daybreak, Donovan, reconnoitering the situation, was wounded, his leg shattered.
	www.soc.mil /swcs/museum/Dmem.shtml (684 words)

	Andrew P. N. Erdmann, "Beating the Terrorist Challenge," Policy Planning Staff, Joint Session of American ...
		Last fall, in the wake of the September 11th attacks, I was reminded unexpectedly of Donovan s example during the first staff meeting I attended of the State Department s office for counterterrorism.
		In his time, Donovan recognized before most of his contemporaries that the United States confronted a historic challenge in the fascist, militarist threat a threat that demanded new ways of doing business, new partnerships at home and abroad, and new ways of waging war.
		The war against terrorism is exactly the sort of conflict "Wild Bill" Donovan the soldier, lawyer, intelligence czar, and diplomat would have understood in his bones.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bush/erdmann.htm (3030 words)

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