footing before being pushed onto the global stage to face winston churchill and joseph stalin at pottstown. he's also facing the decision to deploy the atomic bomb against japan. this is july 1945. and as you know, the next month he decided to drop the atomic bombs. since casablanca, casablanca summit in 1943, europe was seen as the central focus for the global war and the division of post-war europe had already been decided at yalta just before roosevelt died. so there wasn't any question anymore that the russians were going to get all of eastern europe. oss chief douglas there in the middle was appointed to run oss germany and many oss officers were shifted to the far east where the war was still going on. in the picture on the right, you see dulles and on his right is another future director of the cia, richard helms. at the end of the war in september of 1945 the u.s. stood as the only nuclear armed global superpower. and the oss was almost a global service with broad, strategic, and tactical intelligence functions and capabilities. so here you have all the oss offices in western europ