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This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization—the OSS. At the end of the war, President Harry Truman and a small group of advisors developed a new, centralized agency directly subordinate to and responsible to the President, despite entrenched institutional resistance. Instrumental to the creation of the CIA was a group known colloquially as the “Missouri Gang,” which included not only President Truman but equally determined fellow Missourians Clark Clifford, Sidney Souers, and Roscoe Hillenkoetter.

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Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its extensive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter. --David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University; author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy An important and long overdue contribution to America's national security history. The Foundation of the CIA properly honors the members of President Truman's Missouri Gang, whose collective legacy was a responsible intelligence Agency that has served Democratic and Republican Presidents alike for seventy years. --Robert Wallace, author with H. Keith Meltonof Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda Richard Schroeder's compelling new book reveals how an under-appreciated U.S. President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended! -- noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton

Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its extensive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter. --David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University; author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy An important and long overdue contribution to America's national security history. The Foundation of the CIA properly honors the members of President Truman's Missouri Gang, whose collective legacy was a responsible intelligence Agency that has served Democratic and Republican Presidents alike for seventy years. --Robert Wallace, author with H. Keith Meltonof Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda Richard Schroeder's compelling new book reveals how an under-appreciated U.S. President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended! --noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton Relates how Mr. Truman moved to create a new intelligence organization from the wreckage of OSS and replaced it, first with the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and then the Central Intelligence Agency. --Washington Times

This is a timely book that adds perspective to the CIA's origins, while clarifying the obstacles that were overcome by dedicated officers who should not be forgotten. --Studies in Intelligence Richard Schroeder's compelling new book reveals how an under-appreciated U.S. President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended! --noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its extensive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter. --David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University; author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy An important and long overdue contribution to America's national security history. The Foundation of the CIA properly honors the members of President Truman's Missouri Gang, whose collective legacy was a responsible intelligence Agency that has served Democratic and Republican Presidents alike for seventy years. --Robert Wallace, author with H. Keith Meltonof Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda Relates how Mr. Truman moved to create a new intelligence organization from the wreckage of OSS and replaced it, first with the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and then the Central Intelligence Agency. --Washington Times

Relates how Mr. Truman moved to create a new intelligence organization from the wreckage of OSS and replaced it, first with the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and then the Central Intelligence Agency. --Washington Times Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its extensive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter. --David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University; author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy An important and long overdue contribution to America's national security history. The Foundation of the CIA properly honors the members of President Truman's Missouri Gang, whose collective legacy was a responsible intelligence Agency that has served Democratic and Republican Presidents alike for seventy years. --Robert Wallace, author with H. Keith Meltonof Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda Richard Schroeder's compelling new book reveals how an under-appreciated U.S. President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended! --noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton

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Richard E. Schroeder is Adjunct Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He holds a PhD. From the University of Chicago and has lectured widely on intelligence issues. A retired Central Intelligence Agency officer and an Advisory Board Member Emeritus of the International Spy Museum, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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