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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Schroeder, Richard E.
Titre(s) : The foundation of the CIA [Texte imprimé] : Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the origins of the Cold War / Richard E. Schroeder
Publication : Columbia (Mo.) : University of Missouri Press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-175 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 163-169. Index
"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
Sujet(s) : Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1945-1953
Guerre froide -- États-Unis
États-Unis. Central intelligence agency -- 1945-1970
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.918 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1945-1953
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826221377 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47126981s
Notice n° :
FRBNF47126981
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
