Central Intelligence Agency
History and Documents
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2014
197 pages
978-0-8173-8862-1 (ISBN)
Description
Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic In late 1974 the U.S. Senate Select Committee on the CIA, headed by Frank Church of Idaho, began collecting documents and materials to buttress the committee hearings on the CIA's role and activities that were to begin in the fall of 1975. Among the materials prepared for the Church Committee is History of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was written by committee staff member Anne Karalekas. This book reproduces the History, with an introduction by Leary that establishes the historical framework for the Church Committee hearings, and also includes ten relevant documents covering events from 1944 to 1981.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- History of the Central lntelligence Agency
- Part One: The Central lntelligence Group and the Central lntelligence Agency, 1946-52
- Part Two: The Dulles Era, 1953-61
- Part Three: Change and Routinization, 1961 -70
- Part Four: The Recent Past, 1971 -75
- Part Five: Conclusions
- Organizational Charts
- List of Acronyms
- Documents
- 1. Memorandum for the President by William J. Donovan, November 18, 1944
- 2. President Harry S. Truman Establishes the Central lntelligence Group, January 22, 1946
- 3. The National Security Act of 1947 [excerpts]
- 4. National Security Council Directive 1012, June 18, 1948, Establishing the Office of Special Projects
- 5. The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report to the National Security Council on the Central lntelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence, January 1, 1949 [Summary]
- 6. Report of the Special Study Group [Doolittle Committee] on the Covert Activities of the Central lntelligence Agency, September 30, 1954 [excerpts]
- 7. National Security Council Directive 541212, December 28, 1955, on Covert Operations
- 8. Final Report of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, April 26, 1976 [General Findings]
- 9. Executive Order No. 12063, January 24, 1978, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]
- 10. Executive Order No. 12333, December 4, 1981, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
