Before the OSS was formed – before it began, many different U.S. government agencies were involved in a little bit of intelligence work here, a little bit there, but it wasn't a very effective way to gather information – It didn't work very well.
在 OSS 成立之前——在它开始之前,许多不同的美国政府机构都参与了这里的情报工作, 那里的情报工作,但这并不是一种非常有效的收集信息的方式——它不是很有效出色地。