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President Kennedy wrote this letter to CIA Director John McCone commending the Agency for its role in the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Last Updated: 12.13.2019

Notes from Our Attic: A Curator's Pocket History of the CIA

You can study history in many ways—visiting monuments reading books, finding documents, or exploring museums. In this publication, we tell the story of our Agency through a selection of artifacts collected by the CIA Museum, often called the “Best Museum You’ve Never Seen.”

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Profiles in Leadership: Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Its Predecessors, 1941-2021

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The Creation of the Intelligence Community

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Office of Scientific Intelligence: The Original Wizards of Langley

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CIA’s Clandestine Services Histories of Civil Air Transport

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