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The Central Intelligence Agency

History and Documents

Edited by William M. Leary

200 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.80 in

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9780817302191
Published: June 1984

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Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic

In late 1974 the U.S. Senate Select Committee on the CIA, headed by Frank Church of Idaho, began collecting documents and materials to buttress the committee hearings on the CIA’s role and activities that were to begin in the fall of 1975. Among the materials prepared for the Church Committee is History of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was written by committee staff member Anne Karalekas.

This book reproduces the History, with an introduction by Leary that establishes the historical framework for the Church Committee hearings, and also includes ten relevant documents covering events from 1944 to 1981.

Contents

Introduction

History of the Central lntelligence Agency

Part One: The Central lntelligence Group and the Central lntelligence Agency, 1946-52

Part Two: The Dulles Era, 1953-61

Part Three: Change and Routinization, 1961 -70

Part Four: The Recent Past, 1971 -75

Part Five: Conclusions

Organizational Charts

List of Acronyms

Documents

1. Memorandum for the President by William J. Donovan, November 18, 1944

2. President Harry S. Truman Establishes the Central lntelligence Group, January 22, 1946

3. The National Security Act of 1947 [excerpts]

4. National Security Council Directive 1012, June 18, 1948, Establishing the Office of Special Projects

5. The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report to the National Security Council on the Central lntelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence, January 1, 1949 [Summary]

6. Report of the Special Study Group [Doolittle Committee] on the Covert Activities of the Central lntelligence Agency, September 30, 1954 [excerpts]

7. National Security Council Directive 541212, December 28, 1955, on Covert Operations

8. Final Report of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, April 26, 1976 [General Findings]

9. Executive Order No. 12063, January 24, 1978, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]

10. Executive Order No. 12333, December 4, 1981, Governing Intelligence Activities [excerpts]

Bibliographical Essay

Index

William Leary is associate professor of history, University of Georgia, and the author of Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia (UAP, 1984).

“This handy volume pulls together a core collection of documents pertaining to the CIA. . . . Leary’s introduction provides an overview and chronology of U.S. intelligence operations from the American Revolution through World War II . . . and places [the documents] in proper perspective. [The] compilation is attractive and convenient.”
—Government Publications Review

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