President Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) by a Presidential military order on June 13, 1942. The OSS collected and analyzed strategic information as well as coordinating propaganda, subversion, and espionage activities for the U.S. military. The OSS invented and produced many kinds of spy tools, weapons, explosives, and poisons from basic to highly unusual. The 13,000 personnel of the OSS worked in the U.S. and many foreign countries, including behind enemy lines. Some of the personnel were famous before or after the war for things unrelated to espionage. Dissolved by presidential order in 1945, many of the functions handled by the OSS eventually became part of the modern Central Intelligence Agency.
This simple AR geocache does not require disguise, explosives, or poison pills. It does require the Metaverse app on your GPS enabled mobile device. There are four missions to be performed in order. For each mission you must meet your contact agent, provide the identity password based on an OSS military operation, and answer the agent’s question. Questions may or may not be site specific. When you successfully complete a mission, you will learn the next identity password. The final agent will provide the cache coordinates. Go to the posted coordinates and use the identity password MAGIC to begin your first mission.
In Metaverse, search for the group AR_Spies_Everywhere or use this QR code inside the app. The Metaverse group map view shows where to find all four agents. You must be within 30 meters of the agent's location to interact.
“This cache is part of an experiment that allows the use of Augmented Reality (AR) apps to find the cache. At the end of this experiment, Geocaching HQ will decide if this cache will be grandfathered or archived. Geocaching HQ reserves the right to archive this cache at any time if conditions change. If you have found this cache and would like to give feedback on your experience, please fill out this survey.”
Metaverse app:
Apple https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1159155137
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gometa.metaverse