Harry S. Truman

Creation of the CIA

Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized military forces by merging the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) and creating the U.S. Air Force. The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.^[1]

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Limit CIA Role To Intelligence	letter	22 December 1963	CIA	A letter just after the assassination of JFK which was published once and then vanished down the memory hole.

Page	Quote	Date
Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations	<nowiki>“[[[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] Dag Hammarskjöld] was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said "when they killed him."”</nowiki>	1961

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
David Bruce	US/Ambassador/France	17 May 1949	10 March 1952

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Reflection on the Role of the U.S. Vice Presidency	Article	25 September 2024	Ludwig De Braeckeleer	On 12 April 1945, Vice President Truman was preparing to have a drink in House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s office when he received an urgent message to go immediately to the White House, where Eleanor Roosevelt told him that her husband had died after a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Suddenly, the ‘piano player’ was responsible for overseeing the final phase of World War II and shaping the postwar global order: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and the UN.

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