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Don⋅o⋅van

[don-uh-vuhn]
–noun
William Joseph (“Wild Bill”), 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and military officer: organizer and director of the OSS 1942–45.
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Don·o·van   (dŏn'ə-vən)   
American army officer and public official who founded and directed (1942-1945) the Office of Strategic Services, an intelligence-gathering agency that was a forerunner of the CIA.
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