FOIA
Creating Global Intelligence
Overview
Discover the back story of the US intelligence community by exploring "Creating Global Intelligence: The Creation of the US Intelligence Community and Lessons for the 21st Century", a collection of declassified documents from the late 1940s to the early 1950s that ultimately led to the establishment of the CIA. This 800+ collection allows history to come to life as well as giving perspectives on the complex issues that senior US Government officials grappled with when considering how to establish an enduring national intelligence capability.
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Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392296
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 Letter_to_Attorney_General_19_Aug_1946.PDF | 153.76 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839229f
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| Letter_to_US_Civil_Service_Commission_14_Aug_1946.PDF | 275.79 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392293
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| Liaison_Procedure_with_ONI_30_Aug_1946.PDF | 361.4 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392295
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| Liaison_State_Department_12_Aug_1946.PDF | 617.47 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839228c
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| Liaison_State_Department_13_Aug_1946.PDF | 266.17 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/Liaison_with_Research_Divisions_of_State_Dept._21_Aug_1
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392290
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| Liaison_with_Research_Divisions_of_State_Dept._21_Aug_1946.PDF | 1.58 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/Liaison_with_State_Department_Research_Divisions_21_Aug
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392292
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| Liaison_with_State_Department_Research_Divisions_21_Aug_1946.PDF | 1.35 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/Memo_for_DCI_on_intelligence_at_Pearl_Harbor_22_Aug_194
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839229b
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| Memo_for_DCI_on_intelligence_at_Pearl_Harbor_22_Aug_1946.pdf | 3.79 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/Memo_for_ICAPS_on_Interdepartmental_Coordination_19_Aug
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839229d
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| Memo_for_ICAPS_on_Interdepartmental_Coordination_19_Aug_1946.PDF | 426.11 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/Memo_on_coordination_of_intelligence_activities_21_Aug_
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392297
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| Memo_on_coordination_of_intelligence_activities_21_Aug_1946.pdf | 189.71 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392288
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| Memo_on_Deptment_Liaison_12_Aug_1946.PDF | 557.74 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83922a8
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| Memo_on_liaison_procedure_with_G-2_21_Aug_1946.pdf | 158.51 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839228f
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| Message_From_President_to_DCI_25_Aug_1946.PDF | 107.44 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839229a
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| Message_to_DCI_from_EXDIR_15_Aug_1946.PDF | 221.54 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/NIA_6_Coordination_of_Intelligence_Activities_Related_t
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392298
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/08 - August 1946/NIA_Directive_No_6_Foreign_Atomic_Energy_Issues_13_Aug_
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839228e
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| NIA_Directive_No_6_Foreign_Atomic_Energy_Issues_13_Aug_1946.PDF | 465.3 KB |