British Security Co-ordination

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 687 words | Copyright

British Security Co-ordination, intelligence organization established in New York in August 1940 by the Canadian-born William Stephenson. In its early days it represented MI6 and SOE in the western hemisphere, and, until 1943, MI5 in Canada and the Caribbean. After the USA entered the war it acted as the liaison office between SOE and MI6 and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and, when the OSS and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (see USA, 7) took over many of its intelligence gathering and counter-espionage activities, it became the channel for intelligence between these organizations and Whitehall; it also administered camp X which trained SOE and OSS personnel.

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