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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/specialCollection/cgi/1940/Presidential_order_establishing_Office_of_Emergency_Management_25_May_19
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392349
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 Presidential_order_establishing_Office_of_Emergency_Management_25_May_1940.pdf | 306.52 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392176
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| Executive_Order_9001_(continued)_27_Dec_1941.pdf | 591.04 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1941/Presidential_order_defining_status_and_function_of_the_Office_for_Emerge
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392177
/specialCollection/cgi/1941/Presidential_order_designating_coordinator_of_information_11_Jul_1941.pd
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392175
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| Presidential_order_designating_coordinator_of_information_11_Jul_1941.pdf | 174.8 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839239e
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| Executive_Order_9182_13_Jun_1942.pdf | 463.36 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a1
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| Military_order_OSS_13_June_1942.PDF | 226.58 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a0
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| Presidential_order_establishing_the_OSS_13_Jun_1942.pdf | 306.52 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839239f
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| Presidential_order_on_the_OSS_13_Jun_1942.pdf | 122.25 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a4
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| Executive_Order_9296_30_Jan_1943.pdf | 230.76 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a3
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| Executive_Order_9312_9_Mar_1943.PDF | 105.2 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a2
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| JCS_memo_to_Director_of_Strategic_Services_27_Oct_1943.pdf | 415.34 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d83923a5
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| US_Navy_memo_attache_Turkey_extracts_26_Aug_1943.pdf | 510.75 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1944/Donovan_plan_to_establish_central_intelligence_authority_18_Nov_1944.pdf
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392173
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| Donovan_plan_to_establish_central_intelligence_authority_18_Nov_1944.pdf | 1.27 MB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1944/Draft_executive_order_to_establish_central_intelligence_service_no_day_o
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392174
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| Draft_executive_order_to_establish_central_intelligence_service_no_day_or_month_1944.pdf | 825.68 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1944/Memo_from_Donovan_basis_for_permanent_US_foreign_intelligence_service_10
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839216e
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| Memo_from_Donovan_basis_for_permanent_US_foreign_intelligence_service_10_Oct_1944.pdf | 664.51 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d8392172
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| Memo_from_Donovan_to_Truman_18_Nov_1944.pdf | 1020.49 KB |
Document Number: 50dde103993247d4d839216f
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| Memo_from_Donovan_to_Truman_26_Dec_1944.pdf | 530.53 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839234e
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| Amendments_to_State_Department_plan_15_Dec_1945.pdf | 575 KB |