Introduction: The Struggle to Control a Unique Resource

More than sixty years have passed since the outbreak of World War II. During that war, a small number of organizations provided the total intelligence gathering activities of the United States government. Army and Navy authorities played a preeminent role in the production of this intelligence. Since 1945 a great number of organizational changes have occurred in the management and direction o f U.S. intelligence activities, and the intelligence community has greatly expanded. There is now a National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB), and National Security Agency (NSA), as well as the military ...

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