In July 1941, Roosevelt appointed Donovan as the Coordinator of Information (COI) to direct the nation’s first peacetime, nondepartmental intelligence organization. What emerged was the Predecessor of the CIA, the OSS, later on headed by Allen Dulles.

This is one of the most controversial Intelligence Agencies. Involved in large scale Drug Trafficing, Illegal Weapon Deals, Torture, Secret Mind Control Programs, Counterintelligence and moneylaundering through affiliated corporate entities. It has been suggested numerous times, that Operations of the latter kind are coordinated through Key Officials of The Navy and the Marines.