TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schroeder,Richard E.
TI  - The foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the origins of the Cold War 
SN  - 9780826221377
AV  - JK468.I6 S256 2017
U1  - 327.1273009 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Truman, Harry S.,
KW  - United States
KW  - Central Intelligence Agency
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - USA
KW  - gnd
KW  - Cold War (1945-1989)
KW  - Cold War
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) 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
N2  - "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
ER  -