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Creating Global Intelligence

Document List

1940

Presidential order establishing Office of Emergency Management

1941

Executive Order 9001
Presidential order defining status and function of the Office for Emergency Management - 7 Jan 1941
Presidential order designating Coordinator of Information

1942

Executive Order 9182
Military order OSS
Presidential order establishing OSS
Presidential order on the OSS

1943

Executive order 9296
Executive order 9312
JCS memo to Director of Strategic Services
US Navy memo, attaché Turkey extracts

1944

Donovan plan to establish Central Intelligence Authority
Draft executive order to establish central intelligence service
Letter to Donovan
Memo from Donovan to Truman - Nov 18
Memo from Donovan to Truman - Dec 26
Memo from Donovan, basis for permanent US foreign intelligence service
Public Law 358

1945

Amendments to State Department Plan
Amendments to State Department plan copy a
Interview with Otto Reker
Letter from Donovan on establishing US central intelligence system, longer
Letter from Donovan on establishing US central intelligence system, shorter,
Letter from Secretary of Navy to Secretary of War
Letter from Truman to Donovan
Letter from Truman to Donovan, with précis,
Memo for Magruder
Memo for Secretary of War on CIA
Memo from Magruder on National Foreign Intelligence Agency
Memo on delegation of authority
Memo reconvening War Department's Intelligence Committee, longer
Memo reconvening War Department's Intelligence Committee, shorter
Report of Lovett Committee [longer],
Report of Lovett Committed [shorter]
Report to JCS on establishing Central Intelligence Service,
State Department plan for National Intelligence Authority,
Strategic Services Unit report to Lovett Committee,
War Department committee to study Fl problems,
War Dept Reply to Request for Correspondent in Korea