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: 50dde103993247d4d8392260
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 CIG_2_Monitoring_Foreign_Press_5_Mar_1946.PDF | 334.77 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839225d
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| CIG_2_NIA_Views_on_Executive_Order_13_Mar_1946.PDF | 1.58 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/CIG_4_Survey_of_Coverage_of_Foreign_Press_19_Mar_1946.PD
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392261
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| CIG_4_Survey_of_Coverage_of_Foreign_Press_19_Mar_1946.PDF | 1.49 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/CIG_Directive_No_2_Views_on_Proposed_Exec_Order_13_Mar_1
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392279
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| CIG_Directive_No_2_Views_on_Proposed_Exec_Order_13_Mar_1946.PDF | 356.71 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/CIG_Directive_No_3_Collecting_Foreign_Intelligence_Using
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392262
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| CIG_Directive_No_3_Collecting_Foreign_Intelligence_Using_Clandestine_Methods_15_Mar_1946.PDF | 697.76 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/CIG_Directive_No_5_Collection_of_Intelligence_on_China_2
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392273
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| CIG_Directive_No_5_Collection_of_Intelligence_on_China_29_Mar_1946.PDF | 377.36 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839226f
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| CIG_Personnel_Order_No_2_2_Mar_1946.PDF | 89.55 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839226c
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| Clark_Clifford_Note_to_DCI_7_Mar_1946.PDF | 78.08 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839226a
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| DCI_memo_survey_of_collection_in_China_23_Mar_1946.PDF | 535.28 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/DCI_memo_survey_of_facilities_for_collecting_FI_21_Mar_1
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392265
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| DCI_memo_survey_of_facilities_for_collecting_FI_21_Mar_1946.PDF | 466.03 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392264
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| Draft_NIA_Views_on_Exec_Order_13_Mar_1946.PDF | 626.29 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839226e
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| IAB_Meeting_Agenda_26_Mar_1946.PDF | 719.57 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/NIA_3_Liquidation_of_Strategic_Services_Unit_27_Mar_1946
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392266
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| NIA_3_Liquidation_of_Strategic_Services_Unit_27_Mar_1946.PDF | 576.43 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/03 - March 1946/NIA_Comment_on_Exec_Order_Directing_Cooperation_on_Forei
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392270
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| NIA_Comment_on_Exec_Order_Directing_Cooperation_on_Foreign_Intelligence_29_Mar_1946.PDF | 229.27 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392263
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| NIA_Directive_No_3_copy_a_30_Mar_1946.pdf | 1020.73 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839225c
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| NIA_Directive_No_3_copy_b_30_Mar_1946.PDF | 835.42 KB |