The Foundation Of The Cia: Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, And The Origins Of The Cold War
by Richard E. Schroeder /
2017 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.
