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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