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Volume 2, Number 1
Summer 2002Prolonged
Suspense:
The Fortier Board and the Transformation of the Office of Strategic Services
by
MICHAEL
WARNER -- abstract
American intelligence faced major
challenges at the end of World War
II. Organizations and practices hurriedly established during the war seemed to
many Washington decisionmakers to be deficient as bases for peacetime
intelligence. In evaluating the remnants of the Office of Strategic Services,
Truman administration officials found that the leaders of OSS had developed a
sophisticated understanding of how a permanent intelligence service could work.
Declassified records of their discussions illuminate that understanding and the
ways in which it guided the reform of American intelligence that culminated in
the National Security Act of 1947 and the creation of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
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