WWII OSS CIA Intelligence Appraisal German Troop Strength 1943 RARE

Description

Author:
STRONG, Major General George Veasy.
Title:
“The Strength of the Axis", delivered before the House of Representatives on 20 October 1943 and before the Senate on 21 October 1943.
Year
: 1944
Size and pagination:
12”x 9", 13 leaves text and 17 leaves of graphic displays of data.
Offset. Bound by a single staple at upper left corner.
Provenance:
Library of the Office of Strategic Services (through 4/9/47?, the precursor to the CIA) and then the Library of Congress, with the LC Surplus/Duplicate rubber stamp for deaccession.
Rare: this document is
not found
in printed format in WorldCat.
“George Veazey Strong (March 4, 1880 – January 10, 1946) was a U.S. Army general with the rank of major general, who is most famous for his service as commander of the Military Intelligence Corps during World War II. In 1940, Strong was appointed commander of the Seventh Corps Area and served in this capacity until May of next year, where he was reassigned to the VIII Corps as its commander. He succeeded Walter Krueger, who was promoted and transferred. Strong stayed in this capacity until 1942...Strong was chosen to become U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2). Major General Strong served in this capacity until January 1944, when he was succeeded by Major General Clayton Bissell. Subsequently, he was retired, but remained employed by the army and attached to the War Department. Strong finally retired in 1945 and died a year later at the age of 65.”--Wikipedia
“Expecting the military order to be signed within 24 hours the JCS then directed G 2 and ONI to prepare draft directives governing the activities of the Donovan organization. Here it must be emphasized that probably no one was more willing to do just that than the new G 2 General Strong who had officially taken over Army intelligence on May 5. A powerful Army figure who had headed G 2's Intelligence Group in 1937-38 and the War Plans Division in 1938-40. Maj Gen George V Strong was the living embodiment of G-2's institutional fear of being destroyed or absorbed by COI with its energetic and imaginative director its White House entré its apparently unlimited funds and personnel and its apparently equally unlimited wide ranging overt clandestine and military operations. Known as George the Fifth because of his name and with reference to Britain s former monarch General Strong was a forceful personality whom Adolf Berle considered a sound solid citizen. To Secretary Stimson Strong was a very good man but the wrong man temperamentally for G-2. Eisenhower credited him with a keen mind a driving energy and ruthless determinination.”--Thomas F. Troy,
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency
, CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1981, p 150.