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Autore |
Schroeder Richard E |
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The Foundation of the CIA : Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War / / Richard E. Schroeder |
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Columbia, MO : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2017 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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. |
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