POL 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Strategic Services Unit, Central Intelligence Agency, Truman Doctrine

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 336
• Professor: Helmut Norpoth

Document Summary

Part 1 - in the beginning, we knew nothing - the cia under truman, 1945 to 1953. Truman never wanted the cia to act as a spy organization (3) A new spy service to serve the pentagon, not the president (5) Fdr- oss: office of strategic services under general donovan. Many viewed it as dangerous to democracy (6) Failed with pearl harbor, as the military was divided and although there were ideas of a surprise jap attack, couldnt work to put all the facts together so were taken by surprise. Spring 1945- knew nothing about soviet union, or rest of world really (6) Fbi director j. edgar hoover the oss had done serious harm to the citizens, business interests, and national interests of the united states which left truman with deep distrust of the secret intelligence services (7) Page 7- how many countries took advantage of oss. Truman dismisses and eventually fires donovan after hiroshima & nagasaki.