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"Political views were irrelevant to the director. He valued creative intelligence, a love of adventure, and a willingness to fight the enemy." - Noel Fitch Riley

"If you define leadership as having a vision for an organization, and the ability to attract, motivate and guide followers to fulfill that vision, you have Bill Donovan in spades." - Fisher Howe, special assistant to General Donovan

"The OSS was a remarkable institution: half cops and robbers and half faculty meeting." - McGeorge Bundy

"It wasn't a spit-and-polish organization. It was a can-do outfit." - Col. William H. Pietsch Jr., USA (Ret.)

"I have never known such a bunch of troublemakers in my life." - Bernard Knox

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London's Special Forces Club Celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the Special Operation Executive's Founding

November 2010

Photographs by Naresh Verlander

(l t r) OSS Society President Charles Pinck, HRH Princess Anne, patron of the Special Forces Club, and OSS Society Director Col. Andy Anderson, USA (Ret.).

HRH Princess Anne
Remarks by HRH The Princess Royal

Charles Pinck presenting a gift from The OSS Society to Sir Colin McColl, Chairman of the Special Forces Club
Remarks by OSS Society President Charles Pinck

SOE veterans at the November 3, 2010 celebration at the Imperial War Museum

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