The Intelligence Establishment

Download or read book Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment written by United States. Department of State and published by Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Department Publication 10316. Edited by C. Thomas Thorne, et al. General Editor: Glenn W. LaFantasie. One of a series of volumes on the foreign policy of the Truman administration. Also advertised with the subtitle: Intelligence and Foreign Policy. Includes high-level governmental plans, discussions, administrative decisions, and managerial actions that established institutions and procedures for the central coordination of intelligence collection and analysis and covert action. Documentsthe advice, actions, and initiatives of principals and groups in other departments and agencies, who helped to lay the foundations for the centralized intelligence bureaucracy.