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The lives of 139 fallen CIA officers are represented by 139 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the Original Headquarters building. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) dates from September 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law.
Intelligence tasks were shortly later resumed and carried over by its successors, the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the intermediary precursor to the independent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The rumblings of spies and secrets long past still haunt the tranquil trails of several U.S. National Parks. In fact, the forested hills of Maryland and Virginia once concealed America’s first school for spies.
The national park idea has been credited to the artist George Catlin. In 1832 he traveled the northern Great Plains of the United States, where he became concerned about the destruction of the Indian civilization, wildlife, and wilderness as eastern settlements spread westward.
In the 1940s, Prince William Forest Park was known as the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America’s World War II spy agency and the precursor to today’s CIA, needed a rural, isolated location to train America’s first spies and covert operatives. The park proved the perfect training ground.
28 Οκτ 2016 · Some 13,000 men and women worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the U.S. intelligence agency during World War II and the forerunner of the modern CIA.
The National Security Act of 1947 establishes the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to replace the National Intelligence Authority and the Central Intelligence Group.
