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Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947

Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947



In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, a skeptical Harry Truman abolished America's only spy agency the OSS, without a replacement. Within two years, as British military and intelligence power declined, Truman discovered the need for a new organisation was paramount.

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