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Welcome to Spookland: Tricks of the Trade of the CIA

by Steve Mizrach
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/spooklandtricks19oct06.shtml
Posted Oct. 19, 2006

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/spookland.html

Origin and Function of the CIA: The "Cult of Intelligence"

The CIA was created at the outset of the Cold War by Truman's National Security Act of 1947. That Act was a response to Yalta, and to the general pervasive fear that, after WW II, the greatest threat to world peace was the communists. The CIA was mostly formed out of the reorganized OSS (Office of Strategic Services) which coordinated espionage and intelligence activities against the Nazis. (However, anti-communism was an overarching concern for the new agency, which enlisted some of its old enemies against a previous ally: many former Nazis functionaries, such as Richard Gehlen, were enlisted into the CIA spy network in Eastern Europe.)

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