 The Office of Strategic Services counter-intelligence branch, X-2, acquired a central role alongside SI, due to the nature of the program as both an effort to stop post-war German economic penetration in neutral countries as well as a data collection operation.The addition of the Safehaven program resulted in a redirection of classified information for the Office of Strategic Services,  who had been gathering information on German economic activities to comprehend the war economy from 1942.Key Office of Strategic Services foreign stations located in Portugal, Switzerland and Spain, worked to uncover German efforts to obtain assets in neutral countries.