Kammala wannan jumla: A musamman nasara ga OSS shi ne rawar da ya taka a watsa m daga kudancin Faransa a cikin run-up zuwa
Ƙungiyar Allied ta sauka a Riviera na Faransa a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1944. Saboda 'yan leƙen asirin Donovan, in ji Kanar William Quinn, sojojin da suka mamaye ƙasar "sun san kome game da wannan bakin teku da kuma inda kowane Bajamushe yake". Donovan ya kasance a wannan mamayewa, kuma, bayan haka ya koma Roma don ganawar sirri da wakilin Hitler zuwa Vatican, Ernst von Weizsäcker. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya sadu da Marshal Tito don tattauna ayyukan OSS a Yugoslavia. Hakanan a watan Agusta na 1944, Donovan ya shiga rikici da Churchill kan goyon bayan OSS ga masu adawa da mulkin Girka.