The foundation of the CIA : Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the origins of the Cold War / Richard E. Schroeder.
"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...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
[2017]
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Physical Description: | x, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"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." -- Book Jacket. |
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Call Number: | JK468.I6 S37 2017 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-169) and index. |
ISBN: | 0826221378 9780826221377 |