U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Psychological Assessment Staff. Assessment of Men. New York: Rinehart, 1948.
Wilcox: "Study of the qualities of OSS personnel operating behind enemy lines."
[WWII/OSS/Gen]
U.S. President. Implementation of the Recommendations of the President's Special Review Board: Message. Washington, DC: GPO, 1987.
Concerns implementation of the Tower Commission Report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
[GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra]
U.S. President. A National Security Strategy for a New Century. Washington, DC: White House, October 1998.
Click for Table of Contents and "Preface."
[GenPostwar/NatSec]
U.S. President. Report of the President's Special Review Board, February 26, 1987. Washington, DC: GPO, 1987.
This is the Tower Commission Report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
NameBase notes that the report "was ... critical of Reagan's 'management style' and provided one of the first official confirmations of the NSC's arms-for-hostages policy. Internal memos and PROF notes (computer mail) between the major players were quoted in detail, and a major portion of North's private funding network was exposed."
[GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra]
U.S.
Secret Service. The United States Secret Service: What It Is, What It Does. Washington, DC: GPO, 1956.
[OtherAgencies/Treasury]
U.S. Special Operations Command [SOCOM]. History and Research Office. United States Special Operations Command, 1987-2007. MacDill Air Force Base, FL: Apr. 2007. [Available as a 32.4 MB PDF file at: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/socom/2007history.pdf]
A 143-page document, this history of SOCOM includes sections on "Founding and Evolution of USSOCOM"; "Major Operations: 1987 to 2001"; operations in "Global War on Terrorism."
[MI/SpecOps]
U.S. Special Operations Command. "USSOCOM Posture Statement 2007." MacDill Air Force Base, FL: Apr. 2007. [Available at http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/socom/posture2007.pdf]
From "Executive Summary": "USSOCOM has three simple and enduring priorities: Winning the Global War on Terror; Ensuring the Readiness of Special Operations Forces; and Posturing SOF for the Future."
The document gives the number of active SOF (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines) as 37,518, with 2,426 reservists, 3,729 in the National Guard, and 1,780 civilians, for a total force of 47,911. In FY 2007, USSOCOM was funded at approximately $6.2 billion.
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