William Joseph Donovan

Duta Besar Amerika Serikat untuk ThailandMasa jabatan
4 September 1953 – 23 Agustus 1954PresidenDwight EisenhowerDirektur Office of Strategic ServicesMasa jabatan
13 Juni 1942 – 1 Oktober 1945PresidenFranklin D. Roosevelt
Harry TrumanWakilJohn MagruderKoordinator InformasiMasa jabatan
11 Juli 1941 – 13 Juni 1942PresidenFranklin D. Roosevelt Informasi pribadiLahir
(1883-01-01)1 Januari 1883
Buffalo, New York, Amerika SerikatMeninggal8 Februari 1959(1959-02-08) (umur 76)
Washington, D.C., Amerika SerikatMakamArlington National CemeteryPartai politikRepublikPendidikanNiagara University
Columbia University (BA)Julukan"Wild Bill"Karier militerPihak Amerika SerikatDinas/cabangNew York National Guard
United States ArmyMasa dinas1912–1916, 1919–1922 (National Guard)
1916–1919, 1941–1945 (Army)Pangkat Mayor JenderalKomando165th Infantry Regiment
Office of Strategic ServicesPertempuran/perangPerang Dunia I
Perang Dunia IIPenghargaanMedal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross
Distinguished Service Medal (3)
Silver Star
Purple Heart (2)
National Security Medal
Freedom Award

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William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan (1 Januari 1883 – 8 Februari 1959) adalah seorang prajurit, pengacara, pejabat intelijensi dai diplomat asal Amerika. Donovan paling dikenal sebagai kepala masa perang dari Office of Strategic Services (OSS), pendahulu Central Intelligence Agency, pada Perang Dunia II.

Referensi

• Waller, Douglas (2011). Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage. New York: Free Press. ISBN 1-4165-6744-5.

Bacaan tambahan

• Alcorn, Robert (1965). No Banners, No Bands. D. McKay. 
• Brown, Anthony Cave (1982). Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-1021-6. OCLC 123143243. 
• Clark, Blake; Clark, Nicol (1946). Into Siam. Bobbs-Merrill. 
• Duffy, Francis Patrick Fr. (1919). Father Duffy's Story, New York: George H. Doran Company. OCLC 366081974
• Ettinger, Albert M.; Ettinger, A. Churchill (1992). A Doughboy with the Fighting 69th. White Mane Pub. Co. ISBN 0-942597-34-6. OCLC 24846119. 
• Ford, Corey (1970). Donovan of O S S. Little, Brown and Company. OCLC 836436423. 
• Harris, Stephen L. (2006). Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I. Potomac Books. ISBN 1-57488-651-7. OCLC 63692700. 
• Hastings, Max (2015). The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939 -1945 (Paperback). London: William Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-750374-2. 
• Hogan, Martin J. (1919). The Shamrock Battalion of the Rainbow: A Story of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth. D. Appleton. OCLC 1896324. 
• Keehn, Roy D. (1910). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (edisi ke-7th). Chicago: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. OCLC 5469453. 
• Lovell, Stanley P (1964). Of Spies & Stratagems. Pocket Books. ASIN B0007ESKHE. 
• Reilly, Henry J.; Heer, F.J. (1936). Americans All, the Rainbow at War: The Official History of the 42nd Rainbow Division in the World War.
• Smith, R. Harris (1972). OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02023-5. OCLC 534470. 
• Srodes, James (1999). Allen Dulles: Master of Spies. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 0-89526-314-9. OCLC 40744506. 
• Troy, Thomas F (1981). Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.

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