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Arrangement of OSS Records

After World War II, a group of OSS veterans in the Strategic Services Unit (SUU) arranged most OSS operational records according to OSS locations, offices, and file categories which are listed below. To learn more about the records, visit The Office of Strategic Services Records Pages.

Locations
Algiers
American Zone of Germany (AMZON)
Angola
Athens
Austria
Barcelona
Bari
Belgium
Bern
Bucharest
Burma
Calcutta
Cairo
Casablanca
Caserta
Chungking
Costa Rica
Dakar
Denmark
Heidelberg
Holland
Honolulu
Iceland
Istanbul
Kandy
Kunming
Lisbon
London
Madrid
New Delhi
New York
Norway
Oslo
Pacific Coast Area
Paris
Prague
Pretoria
Rome
Shanghai
7th Army
Singapore
Stockholm
Washington, DC
Offices
Budget and Finance
Camouflage Division
Censorship Division
Central Information Division (CID)
Communications
Counterintelligence (X-2)
Cover and Documentation
Director's Office
Division of Oral Intelligence
Emergency Rescue Equipment (ERE)
Field Experimental Unit
Field Photographic Branch
Finance
Foreign Nationalities Branch (FNB)
General Counsel
George Office
Headquarters
Headquarters and Headquarter Detachment
History Office
History Project
Intelligence Service
Maritime Unit (MU)
Medical Service
Morale Operations (MO)
Naval Command
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Operations Group (OG)
Operational Supply
Personnel
Personnel Procurement Branch
Pictorial Records
Planning Group
Planning Staff
Property Board
Registry
Reproductions Board
Research and Analysis (R&A)
Research and Development (R&D)
Schools and Training (S&T)
Secretariat
Security
Services
Secret Intelligence (SI)
7th Army
Special Funds
Special Funds Division Finance
Special Operations
Special Projects
Survey of Foreign Experts (SFE)
Strategic Service Operations (SSO)
Technical Services Staff
Transportation
Visual Presentation
X-2 (Counterintelligence)
File Categories
Administrative (AD)
Equipment (EQ)
Financial (FIN)
Index
Intelligence (INT)
Maps
Miscellaneous (MISC)
Other
Operational (OP)
Personalities (PTS)
Personnel (PERS)
Photographs and Motion Pictures (PHOTO)
Projects (PRO)
Propaganda (PROPA)
Radio and Cable (R&C)
Research (RES)

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