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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
1945-1950
Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington, DC

Blue Bar

Editors
C. Thomas Thorne, Jr.
David S. Patterson
General Editor
Glenn W. LaFantasie

United States Government Printing Office
Washington
1996

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10316
OFFICE OF THE HISTORIAN
BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328
ISBN 0-16-045208-2

Contents
Preface
List of Sources
                  List of Abbreviations
                  List of Persons

Founding of the National Intelligence Structure
August 1945-January 1946

Introduction
01 through 09
10 through 14
15 through 24
25 through 29
30 through 34
35 through 39
                  40 through 44
                  45 through 49
                  50 through 54
                  55 through 59
                  60 through 64
                  65 through 69
                  70 through 71

Department of State intelligence
Introduction
72 through 79
80 through 84
                  85 through 89
                  90 through 94

From the Strategic Services Unit
to the Office of Special Operations

Introduction
95 through 99
100 through 109
110 through 115
               116 through 119
               120 through 125
               126 through 136

Souers' tenure as
Director of Central Intelligence

Introduction
137 through 144
               145 through 154

Vandenberg's tenure as
Director of Central Intelligence

Introduction
155 through 164
165 through 174
               175 through 180
               181 through 189
               190 through 195

The National Security Act of 1947
Introduction
196 through 200
01 through 214
               215 through 224
               225 through 229
               230 through 240

Psychological and Political Warfare
Introduction
241 through 249
250 through 259
260 through 269
               270 through 279
               280 through 289
               290 through 300
               301 through 316

Hillenkoetter's tenure as
Director of Central Intelligence

Introduction
317 through 324
325 through 339
340 through 349
350 through 359
360 through 369
               370 through 379
               380 through 389
               390 through 399
               400 through 414
               415 through 421

National Security Council Intelligence Directives
1947-1950
422 through 435

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