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: 50dde103993247d4d839218d
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 Tentative_Organization_of_WDC_1_Dec_1946.PDF | 574.64 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/12 - December 1946/War_Dept_Letter_on_Transfer_of_Foreign_Intelligence_U
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392186
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| War_Dept_Letter_on_Transfer_of_Foreign_Intelligence_Unit_26_Dec_1946.PDF | 396.88 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839219b
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| Webb_to_Vandenberg_20_Dec_1946.pdf | 346.54 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/CIG_Cooperation_on_Scientific_Intelligence_10_Jan_1947
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392136
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| CIG_Cooperation_on_Scientific_Intelligence_10_Jan_1947.PDF | 621.04 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392145
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| CIG_Directive_No_18_23_Jan_1947.pdf | 682.3 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/CIG_Letter_to_FBI_on_Applicant_Investigations_29_Jan_1
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392152
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| CIG_Letter_to_FBI_on_Applicant_Investigations_29_Jan_1947.PDF | 290.42 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392159
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| CIG_operations_memo_6_17_Jan_1947.pdf | 435.9 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/Comments_on_Proposed_National_Defense_Act_23_Jan_1947.
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392158
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| Comments_on_Proposed_National_Defense_Act_23_Jan_1947.PDF | 464.78 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839215f
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| Conference_of_Army_Representatives_24_Jan_1947.PDF | 299.15 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/Conference_of_Army_Reps_Joint_Research_and_Development
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392133
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| Conference_of_Army_Reps_Joint_Research_and_Development_Bd_17_Jan_1947.PDF | 358.16 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/Coordinated_Exploitation_of_Enemy_Document_Repositiori
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392149
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| Coordinated_Exploitation_of_Enemy_Document_Repositiories_13_Jan_1947.PDF | 427.64 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839215d
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| Coordination_of_Collection_Activities_2_Jan_1947.PDF | 65.12 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839214c
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| Cost_of_National_Security_Act_of_1947.PDF | 306.79 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/Daily_summary_of_Foreign_Radio_Broadcast_15_Jan_1947.P
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839213c
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| Daily_summary_of_Foreign_Radio_Broadcast_15_Jan_1947.PDF | 157.15 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392142
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| DCI_Input_for_State_of_the_Union_Address_Jan_1947.PDF | 705.98 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/DCI_Letter_to_FBI_on_CIG_Applicant_Investigations_20_J
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392148
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| DCI_Letter_to_FBI_on_CIG_Applicant_Investigations_20_Jan_1947.PDF | 187.18 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392131
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| Draft_of_National_Defense_Act_23_Jan_1947.pdf | 264.41 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1947/01 - January 1947/Draft_Section_302_National_Defense_Act_received_from_W
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839214a
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| Draft_Section_302_National_Defense_Act_received_from_White_House_25_Jan_1947.pdf | 89.46 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392143
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| Exploitation_of_Enemy_Documents_17_Jan_1947.PDF | 459.65 KB |