Found in the records of the World War II era U.S. intelligence arm, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), this slideshow was originally a filmstrip, a format many older readers may remember from school. It was designed to drill student agent candidates in the format(s) used for reporting wartime intelligence information by OSS agents in the field. The drawings, unattributed, point to the talents many OSS personnel brought to presentations and display a subtle sense of humor, which may have made long hours in the classroom pass more quickly.
This strip was found in the National, Archives and Records Administration (NARA), un-preserved in a series of OSS training aids and was not accessible until I requested these images be digitized. Only a generalized description of the series exists in the catalog of the National Archives.
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