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: 50dde103993247d4d83921c5
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 CIG_Preparations_to_Inherit_WDC_2_Nov_1946.PDF | 350.62 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921cd
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| CIG_routing_slip_-_26_Nov_1946.PDF | 787.52 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Comment_on_Suggestions_to_Legislation_Creating_CIG_26
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921b0
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| Comment_on_Suggestions_to_Legislation_Creating_CIG_26_Nov_1946.PDF | 802.3 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Creation_of_Study_Group_for_Exploitation_of_Foreign_M
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921ca
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| Creation_of_Study_Group_for_Exploitation_of_Foreign_Media_26_Nove_1946.PDF | 187.58 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921a5
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| Designation_of_Liaison_Reps_5_Nov_1946.PDF | 112.33 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921b3
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| Disposition_of_the_WDC_29_Nov_1946.PDF | 163.73 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Distribution_of_FBIS_Daily_to_the_Press_14_nov_1946.P
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921cc
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| Distribution_of_FBIS_Daily_to_the_Press_14_nov_1946.PDF | 333.48 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921a4
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| Interdepartmental_Liaison_5_Nov_1946.PDF | 1.34 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Letter_from_military_attache_London_to_Vandenberg_1_N
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921ce
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| Letter_from_military_attache_London_to_Vandenberg_1_Nov_1946.PDF | 289.36 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Liaison_and_Interchange_of_Information_29_Nov_1946.PD
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921a6
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| Liaison_and_Interchange_of_Information_29_Nov_1946.PDF | 223.88 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Meeting_in_ORE_processing_foreign_media_27_Nov_1946.P
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921b7
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| Meeting_in_ORE_processing_foreign_media_27_Nov_1946.PDF | 155.82 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/11 - November 1946/Meeting_on_Processing_Foreign_Broadcasts_and_Press_27
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921ad
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| Meeting_on_Processing_Foreign_Broadcasts_and_Press_27_Nov_1946.PDF | 195.87 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921d5
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| Memorandum_for_Captain_Watts_26_Nov_1946.PDF | 168.56 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921bf
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| Operations_Memorandum_no_2_18_Nov_1946.PDF | 427.68 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921bd
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| ORE_liaison_with_the_office_ACAS-2_7_Nov_1946.PDF | 840.5 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d83921b2
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| Patterson_to_Vandenberg_18_Nov_1946.PDF | 151.72 KB |