02482oam 22004094a 450 991079470400332120170922081546.00-8262-7393-9(CKB)4340000000196436(MiAaPQ)EBC5017549(OCoLC)1001338023(MdBmJHUP)muse65125(EXLCZ)99434000000019643620170428d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Foundation of the CIAHarry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War /Richard E. SchroederColumbia, MO :University of Missouri Press,2017.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2017.1 online resource (186 pages)0-8262-2137-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Electronic books. 327.1273009Schroeder Richard E1484864MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910794704003321The Foundation of the CIA3787877UNINA