In a global and totalitarian war, intelligence must be global and totalitarian.
Strategy, without information upon which it can rely, is helpless.
The door for intelligence work opened for me when I undertook my first secret mission while on my honeymoon in Japan in 1919. The United States Government asked me to take a two-month trip to Siberia to report anti-Bolshevik movement in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Well, it wasn’t your usual honeymoon, but Mrs. Donovan was very understanding. The mission was successful and opened doors to many more missions for the government. I was heading down the intelligence path and I was loving it.
Intelligence must be global and totalitarian when facing a totalitarian nation with global presence.
William Joseph (“Wild Bill”) Donovan (1883 – 1959) was a United States soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. Donovan is best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is also known as the “Father of American Intelligence” and the “Father of Central Intelligence”.