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20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/British Security Coordination.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags:
   - Roald_Dahl
 start: 1940-05-01
 end: 1945-12-31
-summary: "British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation established in May 1940 by William Stephenson, headquartered at Room 3603, Rockefeller Center, New York. It served as a wartime umbrella organization for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE in the Western Hemisphere, conducting propaganda, counterintelligence, and influence operations across the United States with the knowledge and cooperation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt."
+summary: "British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation (1940-1945) established by William Stephenson at Rockefeller Center, New York, serving as a wartime umbrella for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE conducting propaganda and counterintelligence across the Western Hemisphere."
 location: "New York City / Washington, D.C."
 ---
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags:
   - Donovan
 description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States' wartime intelligence agency during World War II and the direct institutional precursor to the CIA.
 category: "Intelligence & Government"
-summary: "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States wartime intelligence and covert operations agency established on June 13, 1942, under General William J. 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Dissolved by President Truman in October 1945, it was the direct institutional precursor to the CIA. Its creation was substantially shaped by British Security Coordination, and its organizational templates transferred directly into the CIA when the Agency was established in 1947."
+summary: "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the U.S. wartime intelligence and covert operations agency (1942-1945) founded by General William Donovan on British Security Coordination templates, dissolved by Truman in 1945 and reconstituted as the CIA in 1947."
 start: 1942-06-13
 end: 1945-10-01
 location: "Washington, D.C."

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Finders.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - International_Network
   - Computer_Operations
 category: "Private Organization"
-summary: "The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by former Air Force Master Sergeant Marion Pettie that came to public attention in February 1987 when two members were arrested in Tallahassee, Florida while transporting six malnourished children. Subsequent raids on group properties uncovered computer networks, satellite equipment, and documents describing international operations involving children, triggering a federal investigation that was abruptly halted after CIA involvement was acknowledged."
+summary: "The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by Marion Pettie that came to public attention in 1987 when members were arrested transporting malnourished children, with a subsequent federal investigation abruptly closed after the CIA acknowledged an interest in the group."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 start: 1970
 ---