In this Book
- The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Missouri Press
summary
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.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780826273932
Related ISBN(s)
9780826221377
MARC Record
OCLC
1001338023
Pages
185
Launched on MUSE
2017-08-27
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017