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