Format:
x, 175 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Portraits
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24 cm
ISBN:
0826221378
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9780826221377
Content:
"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
Note:
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
USA Central Intelligence Agency
;
Geschichte
;
Truman, Harry S. 1884-1972
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USA Central Intelligence Agency
;
Geschichte 1940-1973
;
Historische Darstellung
