Field Notes
Intelligence Archive
From "Centralized Snooping" to Global Intelligence: The Evolution of America's Spy Chief When President Harry S. Truman disbanded the Office of Strategic Services in September 1945, he effectively ended America's first centralized intelligence operation almost overnight. Yet just four months la...
Field Notes
Intelligence Archive
The Birth of the CIA: Vandenberg's Historic 1947 Senate Testimony Reveals Agency's Cold War Origins A newly declassified 11-page testimony from May 15, 1947, captures a pivotal moment in American intelligence history as Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg argued before the Senate Armed Servic...
Field Notes
Intelligence Archive
Declassified Papers Reveal How America's First Intelligence Chiefs Built the CIA The Intelligence Archive has acquired a substantial new collection documenting the formative years of American intelligence: the personal papers of the first four Directors of Central Intelligence who transformed P...