September 18, 2008 – At the beginning of the Cold War, looking back to the lessons of Pearl Harbor, Congress and President Harry S. Truman approved the creation of a peacetime intelligence service. This new organization, deliberately fashioned to be independent of all the Cabinet departments and military services, was to provide senior U.S. policymakers with comprehensive judgments on political and military issues and to coordinate clandestine activities overseas. Washington thus created an agency dedicated to collecting and analyzing the secrets of actual or potential adversaries.
December 27, 2008
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