APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: MAR 2007 { O3 OTS 50th Anniversary Agenda Welcome: Director of Technical Service Robert W. Wallace Remarks: Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Deputy Director for Operations and Director of Technical Service John N. McMahon Keynote Address: Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet Reading of Meritorious Unit Citation Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology Joanne O. Isham Concluding remarks: Director of Technical Service Robert W.
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. he Office of Technical Service (OTS) marks 7 September 1951 as its
founding date. On that day, its predecessor organization, the Technical
Services Staff (TSS), was created. But the full heritage of OTS pre-
dates the Central Intelligence Agency and can be traced to the Office of Strate-
gic Services (OSS), America's first intelligence agency.I OTS is the lineal
descendant of the OSS Research and Development Branch (OSS/R&D),
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