We only have a CIA because of Truman.
Truman was farther to the right than FDR, but at the same time, he was more partisan. FDR asked Republican Bill Donovan to create the OSS - the wartime intelligence agency.
Truman didn't like that a Republican had founded it, so he dissolved it, and created the CIA. The OSS was a lot better. We have only Truman to blame for that.
Of course GWB won’t say that. He’s a fraud.
Huh? You mean the "Wild Bill" Donovan who cozied up to Stalin, and welcomed the greatest ever Soviet spy penetration of the U.S.? Do a little research.
This isn't to say the CIA's an improvement. Every bureaucratic organization has to be purged regularly or it becomes a power unto itself: the IRS is a great example.
In succession, Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson were aware that their in-house Intelligence and Research division (especially during the years headed by Ivy League savant William Langer) was being asked to perform duties and provide studies much in excess of the capability of personnel available to the Department of State. It was their compliance that led to the genesis and then expansion of Truman’s CIA. One way or another, with the Cold War building, there would have been a CIA whether Truman liked it or not.
Having just read the history of the CIA and it’s beginnings you are way off track here. It’s a lot more complicated than you think and the center of it all were the Dulles brothers.
yep-ignorant article-on Truman and on reference to Reagan’s $s, he wasn’t even in top 10 richest presidents and he worked in private sector for 30 years. Reagan wasn’t that rich-yes house in Bel Air but that money came from his movie and advertising days-his ranch house was tiny, linoleum floors, he used ties to put a foot stool at the end of the bed so he didn’t have to buy a longer bed-and he did a lot of the work