Most people realize that the Office of Strategic Services was dissolved in 1945, and that the CIA started two years later in 1947. However, undenounced to the public, America did keep their espionage branch alive, with a group of people known as Strategic Services Unit. This was post-war predecessor of the CIA, which was formed from part the Office of Strategic Services from World War Two.
Right after the Germans surrendered, the Strategic Services Unit tried launching their first partisan movement against the Soviets.
As early as the late Spring of 1945, America was doing experiments, to see if they could contact member of the Lithuanian Activist Front or the Provisional Government of Lithuania, which they were able to contact member of. The Americans tried setting up networks of Lithuanian Nation in formation which were supposed to be a copy of the Provisional Government of Lithuania, and Lithuanian Activist Front. They attempted at trying to rebuild these networks using a radio remotely throughout the month of June, calling themselves a different name, every time they launched a new movement.
However, the Strategic Services Unit was too underfunded and understaffed to have any real success. They were older to break communication with the Lithuanian nationalist June of 1945. Once more funding was available, America was going to try to restart nationalist movements in another eastern European country, the following year, known as Ukraine.
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