Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). © AFP 2014/ Saul Loeb
Central Intelligence Agency -- RIA Novsoti
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the principal US foreign intelligence and counterintelligence organization, marks its anniversary on September 18.
The CIA is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to top US policymakers. It was established by the National Security Act (NSA) of 1947, which was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947, and came into force on September 18, 1947.
The United States has engaged in intelligence gathering since the end of the 18th century, when its first president, George Washington, was in office, but it was only during the World War II era that the overall intelligence effort came to be coordinated at government level. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed New York lawyer and World War I hero William J. Donovan as Coordinator of Information, promoting him to head the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), after the United States entered World War II in 1942.
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My Comment: I did a Google news check .... and with the exception of RIA Novosti (a Russian news service at that) .... no other news service mentioned that today is the CIA's 67th anniversary. Not one.
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