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Despite opposition from the military establishment, the United States Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), [2] President Truman established the National Intelligence Authority [10] on January 22, 1946, by presidential directive; [11] it was the direct predecessor to the CIA. [12]
In January 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), [86] which was the direct precursor to the CIA. SSU assets, which now constituted a streamlined "nucleus" of clandestine intelligence, were transferred to the CIG in mid-1946 and reconstituted as the Office of Special Operations (OSO).
He is best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during World War II.
President Truman soon recognized the need for a new, fully-functional post-war intelligence organization. So, in 1947 he signed the National Security Act, establishing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan, a highly decorated World War I officer, as Director of the OSS. Donovan organized the OSS to reflect his vision of a national intelligence center, uniquely combining research and analysis, covert operations, counterintelligence, espionage, and technical development–core missions of ...
Most people who are interested in intelligence history think the CIA was formed from America’s World War II spy agency, the Office of Strategic Services, which is mostly correct but not the whole story. The OSS is considered the precursor, or “father of,” both CIA and U.S. Special Forces.
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.
