Episode 24: Ceeing I to A
Phil and Kyle discuss the creation of the CIA and an overview of their illustrious history.
Episode Notes
The CIA, despite how embedded of an institution it seems today, was not always a facet of American foreign and domestic policy (even if they are technically barred from domestic interference). Before 1947 and the National Defense Act there was no Central Intelligence Agency. President Harry Truman and the increasingly powerful, post-war "military-industrial complex" birthed this aggregated and independent intelligence-gathering organization to rationalize the hundreds of reports that came to the Oval Office every day, and gave this new organization more power than maybe had been bargained for.
Join us as we breeze through the early history of the CIA and some of the rationale for its creation.
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