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/1946/07 - July 1946/CIG_Directive_No_13_Coverage_of_Foreign_Language_Press_17
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839230c
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 CIG_Directive_No_13_Coverage_of_Foreign_Language_Press_17_Jul_1946.PDF | 216.12 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/07 - July 1946/CIG_Directive_No_14_Reorganization_of_CIG_19_Jul_1946.PDF
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839232f
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| CIG_Directive_No_14_Reorganization_of_CIG_19_Jul_1946.PDF | 297.1 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392331
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| CIG_Personnel_Order_No_5_22_Jul_1946.PDF | 835.75 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/07 - July 1946/Directive_from_Special_Counsel_to_the_President_to_Prepar
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392330
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| Directive_from_Special_Counsel_to_the_President_to_Prepare_Estimates_on_USSR_18_Jul_1946.PDF | 320.79 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392312
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| George_Elliot_to_Vandenburg18_Jul_1946.PDF | 2.12 MB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392322
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| Hoover_acknowledgement_of_Vanderberg_Letter_re_Central_&_South_America_3_July_1946.PDF | 617.97 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392313
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| Hoover_acknowledgement_of_Vanderberg_Letter_re_Central_&_South_America__Copy_3_July_1946.PDF | 221.79 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/07 - July 1946/Letter_to_Treasury_to_Establish_Working_Fund_30_Jul_1946.
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839230a
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| Letter_to_Treasury_to_Establish_Working_Fund_30_Jul_1946.PDF | 310.33 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392317
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| memo_to_Edgar_handwritten_23_Jul_1946_.PDF | 374.21 KB |
/specialCollection/cgi/1946/07 - July 1946/Memo_to_the_Director_Central_Intelligence_Group_3_Jul_194
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839231b
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| Memo_to_the_Director_Central_Intelligence_Group_3_Jul_1946.PDF | 670.87 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839230e
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| NIA_4-1_Functions_of_the_DCI_8_Jul_1946.PDF | 353.37 KB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d8392326
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| NIA_4th_meeting_copy_17_Jul_1946.PDF | 1.01 MB |
Document Number: 50dde104993247d4d839232a
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| NIA_5_Aquisition_of_Foreign_press_1_Jul_1946.PDF | 97.83 KB |