| The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War Contributor(s): Schroeder, Richard E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826221378 ISBN-13: 9780826221377 Publisher: University of Missouri Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | Intelligence & Espionage - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 327.127 |
| LCCN: 2017941373 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |