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General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950-February 1953

General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950-February 1953

Montague, Ludwell L.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTrue CrimeUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0271030488
ISBN13: 9780271030487
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 1991
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book continues the official history of the CIA begun in Arthur Darling's The Central Intelligence Agency.

Ludwell Lee Montague's book is one of the first documents, along with Darling's history, to be declassified and made available under the CIA's Historical Review Program, launched in 1985. Montague was a leading government official who participated in the interdepartmental debate over the postwar organization of U.S. intelligence that occurred in 1945. He drafted many of the policies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during this bureaucratic struggle, including JIC 239/5, the plan that was also the basis for the establishment of the Central Intelligence Group, the predecessor of the CIA. He served as General Smith's executive assistant when Smith was appointed Director of Central Intelligence in 1950.

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