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The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was formed during WWII as the first US central intelligence gathering agency. In times of war, correct intelligence is priceless. After WWII, it was disbanded, but with the beginning of the Cold War, the US began the CIA to continue intelligence gathering throughout the world in order to preserve our freedoms

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