Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys · Aired Oct 23, 2026
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The CIA was formed by merging the OSS with the remaining Nazi SS.
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National Archives records describe the OSS's dissolution in 1945, US successor organizations and the CIA's creation under the 1947 National Security Act. That is not an institutional merger with the SS. Postwar use of former Nazi personnel and networks is a real but separate historical issue. Jamie reads this distinction on air at about 38:44; the guest disputes the word merger rather than accepting the correction.
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Is it true that the CIA was formed by merging the OSS with the remaining Nazi SS?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. National Archives records describe the OSS's dissolution in 1945, US successor organizations and the CIA's creation under the 1947 National Security Act. That is not an institutional merger with the SS. Mystery Boys said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys, aired Oct 23, 2026, at 37:12. The supporting source is archives.gov, linked below.
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