William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan (1 Januari 1883 – 8 Februari 1959) adalah seorang prajurit, pengacara, pejabat intelijensi dai diplomat asal Amerika. Donovan paling dikenal sebagai kepala masa perang dari Office of Strategic Services (OSS), pendahulu Central Intelligence Agency, pada Perang Dunia II.
William J. Donovan | |
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| Duta Besar Amerika Serikat untuk Thailand | |
| Masa jabatan 4 September 1953 – 23 Agustus 1954 | |
| Presiden | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Pendahulu | Edwin F. Stanton |
| Pengganti | John Peurifoy |
| Direktur Office of Strategic Services | |
| Masa jabatan 13 Juni 1942 – 1 Oktober 1945 | |
| Presiden | Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman |
| Wakil | John Magruder |
| Pendahulu | Diri sendiri (Koordinator Informasi) |
| Pengganti | John Magruder (Strategic Services Unit) |
| Koordinator Informasi | |
| Masa jabatan 11 Juli 1941 – 13 Juni 1942 | |
| Presiden | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Pendahulu | Jabatan didirikan |
| Pengganti | Diri sendiri (Direktur Office of Strategic Services) |
| Informasi pribadi | |
| Lahir | William Joseph Donovan 1 Januari 1883 Buffalo, New York, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 8 Februari 1959 (umur 76) Washington, D.C., Amerika Serikat |
| Makam | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Partai politik | Republik |
| Pendidikan | Niagara University Columbia University (BA) |
| Julukan | "Wild Bill" |
| Karier militer | |
| Pihak | Amerika Serikat |
| Dinas/cabang | New York National Guard United States Army |
| Masa dinas | 1912–1916, 1919–1922 (National Guard) 1916–1919, 1941–1945 (Army) |
| Pangkat | Mayor Jenderal |
| Komando | 165th Infantry Regiment Office of Strategic Services |
| Pertempuran/perang | Perang Dunia I Perang Dunia II |
| Penghargaan | Medal of Honor Distinguished Service Cross Distinguished Service Medal (3) Silver Star Purple Heart (2) National Security Medal Freedom Award |
Referensi Sunting
- Waller, Douglas (2011). Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage. New York: Free Press. ISBN 1-4165-6744-5.
Bacaan tambahan Sunting
- Alcorn, Robert (1965). No Banners, No Bands. D. McKay.
- Brown, Anthony Cave (1982). Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-1021-6. OCLC 123143243.
- Clark, Blake; Clark, Nicol (1946). Into Siam. Bobbs-Merrill.
- Duffy, Francis Patrick Fr. (1919). Father Duffy's Story, New York: George H. Doran Company. OCLC 366081974
- Ettinger, Albert M.; Ettinger, A. Churchill (1992). A Doughboy with the Fighting 69th. White Mane Pub. Co. ISBN 0-942597-34-6. OCLC 24846119.
- Ford, Corey (1970). Donovan of O S S. Little, Brown and Company. OCLC 836436423.
- Harris, Stephen L. (2006). Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I. Potomac Books. ISBN 1-57488-651-7. OCLC 63692700.
- Hastings, Max (2015). The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939 -1945 (Paperback). London: William Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-750374-2.
- Hogan, Martin J. (1919). The Shamrock Battalion of the Rainbow: A Story of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth. D. Appleton. OCLC 1896324.
- Keehn, Roy D. (1910). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (edisi ke-7th). Chicago: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. OCLC 5469453.
- Lovell, Stanley P (1964). Of Spies & Stratagems. Pocket Books. ASIN B0007ESKHE.
- Reilly, Henry J.; Heer, F.J. (1936). Americans All, the Rainbow at War: The Official History of the 42nd Rainbow Division in the World War.
- Smith, R. Harris (1972). OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02023-5. OCLC 534470.
- Srodes, James (1999). Allen Dulles: Master of Spies. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 0-89526-314-9. OCLC 40744506.
- Troy, Thomas F (1981). Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.
Pranala luar Sunting
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai William Joseph Donovan.
- "The OSS Society".
- "Donovan's Medal of Honor citation".
- . Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2021-01-26. Diakses tanggal 2017-12-22.
- . Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal July 9, 2012.
- "Spartacus Educational".
- "OSS Blog".
- (Inggris) "William Joseph Donovan". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Diakses tanggal October 10, 2007.
- "FBI FoI Act Release: File#:77-78706 William J. Donovan".