The Foundation of the CIA Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War / Richard E. Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Richard E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History.

United States.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Truman, Harry S.

Cold War (1945-1989).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2017.

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." -- Book Jacket.

Contents:

American National Intelligence: from the Revolutionary Army to World War II

America in World War II and the beginnings of central intelligence

William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services

Harry Truman, Sidney Souers, and the next steps

The CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, and the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273932

0826273939

OCLC:

1001338023