THE CIA HAD NEVER BEEN CREATED?
How did the CIA come to be?
In 1947 the United States passed a sweeping law called the National Security Act of 1947. This not only created the CIA but also the National Security Council and the Secretary of Defense to manage all the armed services, as well as an independent Air Force and a Marine Corps as a specified component of the Navy. In the case of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Americans had completed an extensive congressional probe into the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and sought to avoid any repeat of that. During WWII the US had benefited from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a wartime spy agency, and the CIA was intended as a successor to that.
Who are some of the key figures in its formation?
Years later,
