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On September 20, 1945, President Truman issued an executive order terminating the OSS, effective 1 October.    In the few days remaining to the agency, General Donovan ordered Lt. Edwin J. Putzell to assist him in microfilming select documents from Donovan's safe files for his own action and personal use. Donovan and Putzell worked, under pressure of time, with a Kodak Recordak Camera to produce 131 rolls of 35mm microfilm from the records of the Donovan files. You can find the summary of the contents of those microfilms here - not only is it a good place to look for other reference material, the summary itself makes for fascinating reading and shows just how many pies the OSS was trying to stick its fingers in by 1945.

I retrieved the following from the Australian War Memorial, under the title  Annexure to intelligence Summary No.9 of 4 April 1942 “History of Espionage in NEI”.   In the previous post, I noted that Japan's war in the Pacific really begins with the establishment of 'The Empire of Japan' with the restoration of Emperor Meiji.    We must now begin to plant the seeds of understanding that along with political and military maneuvers, there were substantial and long-term supporting intelligence operations also taking place.