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	William J. Donovan
		William J. Donovan was Board Chairman of the ACS from 1950-52, and Chairman of the Executive Committee in 1953.
		William Donovan of OSS was responsible for insisting upon absolute and exclusive operation for X-2 in the apprehension of one of the managing directors of the I.G. Farben Company who was held in custody by X-2.
		Donovan was a trustee of Columbia University, 1921-1927.
	www.smokershistory.com /Donovan.htm (4909 words)

	William Donovan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donovan was a college football star at (A university in New York City) Columbia University, graduating in 1905.
		In 1912, Donovan formed and led a troop of (A highly mobile army unit) cavalry of the New York (Click link for more info and facts about State Militia) State Militia, that in 1916 served on the Mexican border in the (Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)) Pancho Villa campaign.
		The OSS was kept out of South America by Hoover's hostility to Donovan, and out of the Philippines by (United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)) Douglas MacArthur's.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Donovan.htm (816 words)

	The Doughboy Center: Donovan: From Fighting Irishman to Spymaster
		William J. Donovan was never regular Army but proved himself a hero in World War I and forever changed the function of American intelligence in World War II.
		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, 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. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell Law Library, where they will be accessible to researchers, thanks to the efforts of New York lawyer and Cornell alumnus Henry Korn.
		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 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)

	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 (7829 words)

	Daily Dunklin Democrat: Story : Column by Kenneth Kinchen
		Donovan arrived in Washington in the evening of that same day, and went to the National Institute of Health building where his newly composed, and unique, Board of Analysts was meeting.
		William J. Donovan was America's new, and first, director of a board for central intelligence scrutiny.
		Donovan wrote to President Roosevelt saying the highly secret document concerning the formation of the CIA was "not leaked, but a deliberate plan to sabotage" any reorganization of the intelligence networks of our government.
	www.dddnews.com /story/1066824.html (1104 words)

	William Donovan
		William Donovan was born in Buffalo, United States, on 1st January, 1883.
		The following year Donovan became head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an organization that was given the responsible for espionage and for helping the resistance movement in Europe.
		Donovan was given the rank of major general and during the Second World War he built up a team of 16,000 agents working behind enemy lines.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdonovanW.htm (1195 words)

	CIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William J. Donovan had served in World War I, served as Assistant Attorney General, and had also become a millionaire.
		Donovan recruited men that would be willing to take chances, yet were capable of handling tough situations where the price for being captured would be death.
		Former President William J. Clinton appointed the current director of the CIA George J. Tenet, and was sworn in on 11 July 1997.
	home.sandiego.edu /~landeros/KGBCIA/CIA.htm (557 words)

	Obituary for Ellen Theresa Dorney Donovan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donovan was a faithful member of St. John's Church and the League of the Sacred Heart.
		Donovan is survived by five sons, Capt. James J. Donovan of the Central Fire Station, Lieut.
		William Brixius and Miss Anna M. Donovan, and 13 grandchildren, all of Utica; also two brothers in Portland Ore., and two sisters in Ireland.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Pointe/8983/ellendorneydonovanobit.htm (181 words)

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		Code named Operation Penny Farthing, it was conceived by Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Major General William J. Donovan, the founder and director of the Office of Strategic Services and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history.
		The idea sprang up four years ago when Geoffrey Jones and William Colby, the late CIA director and then-chairman of the Donovan Foundation, decided it was time to "come up with something that would be a permanent memorial to General Donovan’s service to the free world," says Jones.
		Similarly, Donovan fellows will establish ties with local peoples and their institutions and leaders to get a firsthand view of the impact the United States or organizations like the United Nations are having on the respective nation.
	www.broadchannel1.com /axa/grandson-henry.htm (1035 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donovan and his new office—with its $10 million budget, 600 staffers, and its charismatic director—had provoked hostility from the FBI, the G-2, and various war agencies.
		Donovan wanted to replicate the successes that the SI mission in Algiers had had in running the "Penny-Farthing" network in Southern France, but Germany, with no organized Resistance, was a much tougher objective.
		Donovan microfilmed his office files and bade farewell to his troops at a 28 September rally in a converted skating rink down the hill from his headquarters at 2430 E Street, NW: We have come to the end of an unusual experiment.
	www.webroots.org /library/usamisc/oss-cia0.html (9381 words)

	The Center for Security Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donovan's orders to his OSS teams were simple: Figure out precisely how our enemy works, and wreak havoc.
		Donovan himself was known as "Wild Bill," and it was not always meant as a compliment.
		Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.
	www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org /index.jsp?section=papers&code=01-F_77 (1787 words)

	William J. Donovan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Glackens, William J. American artist whose paintings of street scenes and middle-class urban life rejected the dictates of 19th-century academic art and introduced a matter-of-fact realism into the art of the United States.
		Bennett, William J. (born 1943), U.S. public official, born in Brooklyn, N.Y.; B.A. Williams College 1965, Ph.D University of Texas 1970, J.D. Harvard University 1971; executive director, president, director, National Humanities Center in North Carolina 1976–81; president, chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities 1981–85; secretary of education under President Reagan 1985–89;...
		The letter J has a history that is linked with the history of the letter I. The Romans and their European successors used I both for the vocalic i and for the consonantal y (as in the English word yet).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030939?tocId=9030939 (735 words)

	CORNELL LAW LIBRARY: The Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection at Cornell Law Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donovan graduated from the Columbia Law School and became a prominent attorney in New York City.
		Some of the many remarkable documents among the Donovan Papers include memoranda discussing how the military tribunal should be structured, working notes associated with the interrogation of Göring, drafts of trial briefs against various defendants, Nazi organizational charts, and evidentiary analyses prepared by the Office of Strategic Services and other agencies.
		Donovan -- Wild Bill Donovan of the O.S.S., the C.I.A.'s precursor -- collected and cataloged trial evidence in 148 bound volumes of personal papers that were stored after his death in 1959 at Cornell University.
	www.lawschool.cornell.edu /library/beta/donovan/nur.html (1596 words)

	COI Came First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In selecting William J. Donovan as his Coordinator of Information in July 1941, President Roosevelt chose an energetic civilian who shared his desire to do whatever it took to resist Nazism and the danger it posed to America.
		Donovan had intended the clandestine intelligence gathering of his office to serve its analytical and propaganda branches; he had not originally sought to duplicate the foreign intelligence missions of the armed services.
		Donovan won cooperation from the Librarian of Congress (the poet Archibald MacLeish) for his plan to analyze Axis strengths and vulnerabilities.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/oss/art02.htm (1280 words)

	William J. Donovan (a.k.a. "Wild Bill") Takes on Buffalo
		Donovan, however had met his match in Schwab who short circuited the system and pled nolo contender too the charges placed against him and was fined five hundred dollars.
		Donovan broke from the good old boy network and conducted a raid on one of the most elaborate speakeasies ever built in America, the exclusive Saturn Club of Buffalo.
		Donovan was also a member of the Country Club of Buffalo another exclusive men's club.
	www.buffalonian.com /history/articles/1901-50/donovanschwabcase.html (1196 words)

	William Donovan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		In 1949, he became chairman of the newly-founded American Committee on United Europe, which worked to counter the perceived new Communist threat to Europe by promoting European political unity.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/William-Donovan.htm (909 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As chief of U.S. intelligence during World War II, Donovan is aware that a number of high Abwehr officials and above all their chief, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, are at odds with their fuehrer and the Nazi regime.
		Donovan dispatches OSS official Allen Dulles to Berne, Switzerland, to track the activity of the German conspirators.
		Donovan is deeply opposed to the Anglo-American unconditional surrender clause against Germany arguing that such a policy will reinforce the Nazi regime's claim that the only alternative to war would be post-war slavery.
	www.joric.com /Conspiracy/Donovan.htm (299 words)

	OSS
		Donovan was impressed with many of Britain's operational agencies, especially Britain's intelligence function.
		Colonel William J. Donovan was law graduate from Columbia Law School where he was a classmate of FDR.
		Donovan believed that many open source materials such as libraries, newspapers, and government and industry information would yield valuable information for the Allies.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/oss3.html (1821 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Donovan
		Donovan, Jerome Francis (1872-1949) — of New York.
		Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y. Donovan, John J. — of Illinois.
		Donovan, Richard Joseph (1926-1971) — also known as Dick Donovan — of California.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/donovan.html (895 words)

	NARA - Publications - The Record - May 1998
		Donovan was tireless in reporting events to Franklin Roosevelt.
		Donovan would have been pleased to have been given the authority to build that organization.
		Rather, as author Brown has described it, Donovan's last act at the OSS was his surreptitious copying of his own files.
	www.archives.gov /publications/record/1998/05/oss-project.html (1118 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Joseph Donovan (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Joseph Donovan[don´uvun] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1959, American lawyer, director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), b.
		He was prominent in Republican politics and served (1925–29) in the office of the Attorney General.
		Donovan, given the rank of major general, served until 1945, and later returned to public service as ambassador to Thailand (1953–54).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Donovan.html (260 words)

	WWII - OSS - Donovan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Corey Ford's Donovan of OSS is readable and not dramatically inaccurate as far as it goes.
		Thomas Troy's Donovan and the CIA has an institutional focus that precludes it being regarded as a true "biography" of Donovan.
		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)

	Arthur J. Goldberg Papers (Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a letter dated 15 August 1946 to William J. Donovan, Goldberg gave extensive background of the activities of his Labor Division of the OSS during the war.
		Donovan recruited Goldberg to head the Labor Division of the OSS to establish intelligence networks among anti-Nazi labor groups in occupied Europe.
		Part II Part II of the papers of Arthur J. Goldberg spans the years 1950 to 1966, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 1965.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/goldberg.060204.html (6278 words)

	CI Reader Volume 2 Chapter 3
		The British asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to appoint a Bureau officer to run a new counterintelligence (CI) organization to handle foreign CI, which Donovan had agreed to house within OSS.
		William J Donovan is hereby appointed as Director of Strategic Services.
		William Joseph Casey, Director of CI who served in OSS from 1943; Chief of the Special Intelligence Branch in European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945.
	www.fas.org /irp/ops/ci/docs/ci2/2ch3_a.htm (5798 words)

	William Casey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William J. Casey heads the United States’ foreign intelligence community and directs the Central Intelligence Agency, a position he has held since appointed by the Reagan Administration in 1981.
		He was commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WW II, joining the wartime staff of William J. Donovan, founder of the office of Strategic Services, the CIA’s predecessor.
		Also, Casey has received the William J. Donovan Award and honorary degrees from Fordham University, St. John’s University, Chung Ang University, New York Law School, Molloy College, Adelphi University, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Bryant College and Westminster College.
	www.ashbrook.org /events/lecture/1986/casey.html (485 words)

	Donovan William J. @ Cold War Guide
		In the begin of the second world war he returned to the intelligence and fulfilled unofficial tasks for president Roosevelt.
		That was reformed into OSS a year later and Donovan was put into the lead.
		He was the ambassador in Thailand in 1953, but wasn't so happy about the spot, his retirement followed a year later.
	www.cold-war.info /people/donovan-william-j.html (173 words)

	AEF Casualty Handling Procedures
		During the big offensives, the handling of the wounded was organized on a huge scale, and in a routine fashion.
		Writing from his bed in a Paris hospital on October 23, 1918, Lt. Col William J. Donovan of the famous Fighting 69th [165th Infantry of the 42nd Division] described the process to his wife.
		Donovan had been wounded in the Argonne Forest on October 14, 1918.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/medicalp.htm (674 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.
		The Korns' son Greg is a 1993 Cornell graduate, and their daughter Joanna is a freshman student at Cornell.
		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)

	OSS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) from The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments by J. Ransom Clark, Muskingum College
		Since 1941 Donovan had been in touch with the author of this study, Walter C Langer, who was a psychoanalyst.
		Donovan, now promoted to General, headed the OSS when it was established in 1942.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/OSS.html (521 words)

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