In this Book

The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents

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William M. Leary
2014
Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic

In late 1974 the U.S. Senate Select Committee on the CIA, headed by Frank Church of Idaho, began collecting documents and materials to buttress the committee hearings on the CIA’s role and activities that were to begin in the fall of 1975. Among the materials prepared for the Church Committee is History of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was written by committee staff member Anne Karalekas.

This book reproduces the History, with an introduction by Leary that establishes the historical framework for the Church Committee hearings, and also includes ten relevant documents covering events from 1944 to 1981.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-2

Introduction

pp. 3-10

History of the Central lntelligence Agency

pp. 11-15

Part One: The Central lntelligence Group and the Central lntelligence Agency, 1946-52

pp. 16-53

Part Two: The Dulles Era, 1953-61

pp. 54-75

Part Three: Change and Routinization, 1961 -70

pp. 76-94

Part Four: The Recent Past, 1971 -75

pp. 95-102

Part Five: Conclusions

pp. 103-107

Organizational Charts

pp. 108-114

List of Acronyms

pp. 115-120

Documents

1. Memorandum for the President by William J. Donovan, November 18, 1944

pp. 123-125

2. President Harry S. Truman Establishes the Central lntelligence Group, January 22, 1946

pp. 126-127

3. The National Security Act of 1947 [excerpts]

pp. 128-130

4. National Security Council Directive 1012, June 18, 1948, Establishing the Office of Special Projects

pp. 131-133

5. The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report to the National Security Council on the Central lntelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence, January 1, 1949 [Summary]

pp. 134-142

6. Report of the Special Study Group [Doolittle Committee] on the Covert Activities of the Central lntelligence Agency, September 30, 1954 [excerpts]

pp. 143-145

7. National Security Council Directive 541212, December 28, 1955, on Covert Operations

pp. 146-149

8. Final Report of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, April 26, 1976 [General Findings]

pp. 150-152

9. Executive Order No. 12063, January 24, 1978, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]

pp. 153-168

10. Executive Order No. 12333, December 4, 1981, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]

pp. 169-179

Bibliographical Essay

pp. 180-185

Index

pp. 186-190
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