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One month after World War II, Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, the Chief of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), requested that the Washington Headquarters of the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) search its captured German document collection for information regarding German wartime knowledge of SOE or OSS secret operations. Both the SOE and the Special Operations Branch of the OSS ran hundreds of clandestine operations during the war, parachuting agents far behind enemy lines. Yet, SOE's discovery in 1944 of the German security services' infiltration of SOE's Holland agent network, together with the beginning of acrimonious postwar debates about SOE's failure in Holland, necessitated Gubbins' investigation into German records. (1) OSS Washington forwarded Gubbins' request to the OSS London office, then in the process of consolidating its operational files with the war now over. The London office produced four captured documents that dealt with Allied special operations, but none of the items proved pertinent to Gubbins' specific inquiries. One of these documents, however, would have interested any of the clandestine services during the war had it been forwarded to their air operations personnel. The document indicated that German army intelligence had issued a secret directive on the British Special Air Service (SAS). (2) Although the directive consisted only of a general, two-page narrative on SAS tactics, it indicated German familiarity with a special piece of electronic equipment carried by SAS, SOE, and OSS teams--a compact radar navigation homing beacon which those groups had considered a closely held secret. The Allies nicknamed this radar set Eureka, a Greek term meaning, "I have found it."

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