The foundation of the CIA
Subtitle: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the origins of the Cold War
By: Richard E. Schroeder
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780826221377
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: United States; Cold War; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; History
Other titles: Foundation of the Central Intelligence Agency :
Description: "This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization--the OSS. At the end of the war, President Harry Truman and a small group of advisors developed a new, centralized agency directly subordinate to and responsible to the President, despite entrenched institutional resistance. Instrumental to the creation of the CIA was a group known colloquially as the 'Missouri Gang,' which included not only President Truman but equally determined fellow Missourians Clark Clifford, Sidney Souers, and Roscoe Hillenkoetter"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: American National Intelligence : from the Revolutionary Army to World War II --; title: America in World War II and the beginnings of central intelligence --; title: William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services --; title: Harry Truman, Sidney Souers, and the next steps --; title: The CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, and the Cold War.