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Espionage in WWII: Operation Jedburgh

Pre-WWII Spies

• Pre WWII, espionage

apparatus = primitive and weak

• G-2 / ONI
• FDR creates COI
• FDR chooses William “Wild

Bill” Donovan as head

http://eofdreams.com/spy.html

http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/corporate-espionage-is-it-going- too-far.php

http://blog.enotes. com/2011/05/03/i-spy-ten-of- the-best-works-about- espionage/

The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

• OCI → OSS
• Mission: analyze strategic info and launch secret operations to put officers behind enemy lines
• Five main divisions (SO, R&A, SI, MO, X-2)
• Successful for employing tons of people and creating something that had never existed in US
• Truman terminated it when he came into office

http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/office-of-the- strategic-services-oss-wwii-patch.html

http://www.teslasociety.com/arthur_photos.htm

http://en.wikipedia.

• rg/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

OSS Symbol OSS Officers

The SOE (Special Operations Executive)

• Founded in 1940 for sabotage

missions around Europe and Asia

• Specialties: cryptography,

sabotage missions, disinformation

• Success: Poland, Norway,

Asia, Burma, Malaya

• Head: Brigadier Gubbins
• Junction with OSS →

Jedburghs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002360/The-Lionheart-stole- Nazi--heart-woman.html http://resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch. uk/geography/unionjack.html

Jedburghs - Their Mission

• US involvement in France pre- Jedburghs
• Mission: help resistance movement in

France

• How should OSS and SOE deal with D-

Day?

• Two options
• End Game: meet and help

Maquis (guerrilla fighters) behind enemy lines

http://atmviheo.blogspot.com/2011/05/home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig.html

Operation Jedburgh

• Names: BRUCE, JEAN-

MARIE, QUININE, AMMONIA, VEGANIN

• The story of BRUCE and
• ther teams like it

This is Team Frederick Left: Robert Kehoe (OSS) Middle: Adrian Wise (SOE) Right: Paul Bloch-Auroch (French Lieutenant

Jedburghs - Training

• SOE, OSS, and Radio Operator
• Selection Qualifications
• Winnowing Selection Process
• Mental and Physical Training
• Milton Hall
• Tests
• Ready
• Bravery

Milton Hall http://en. wikipedia.

• rg/wiki/Milton_H

all

http://olive-drab.com/od_history_ww2_stories_jedburghs. php

Morse telegraphy class at Milton

Tools and Technologies

Everyday Items

• Variation
• Pistol
• Carbine
• Ammo
• Binoculars
• Money Belt
• Flashlight
• Escape Kit
• Tobacco
• Map Case
• Uniform/Camo
• Radio Contact
• Learning Morse Code

Special Gadgets

• 1. False footprint

sneakers

• 2. Breathing apparatus
• 3. Sten gun with silencer
• 4. Secret shaving cream

tube

• 5. Exploding rat
• 6. Plaster logs
• 7. Secret cork
• 8. Disguise
• 9. Exploding suitcase
• 10. sleeve gun
• 11. Sleeping Beauty

canoe

• 12. Secret key

all pics from: http://www.bbc.co. uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_gallery_01. shtml

Succesful?

• The Jedburghs Were Vital
• Stopping Trains
• Radio Interception
• Germans Feared the Allied Forces

http://forum.iron-front. com/archive/index.php/t-1525. html http://secureanr.mediaspanonline. com/forthuachuca/special2/Fort- begins-year-long-MI-commemoration

Jedburghs and OSS Post-WWII

• Declassified in 1985
• What’s next for a Jedburgh?
• CIA Director
• 1st Special Forces Commander
• Institution of U.S. Army Special Forces
• Officers’ Opinions

http://en. wikipedia.

• rg/wiki/Will

iam_Colby

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