The Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) was the direct successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and the direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency . The official duties of CIG are quoted by Assistant Executive Director Shields:
7-578: The Central Intelligence Group is a recently created interdepartmental organization in which the State, War, Navy, and sometimes other departments participate. It coordinates all activities of the Government involved in obtaining and analyzing information about foreign countries which this country needs for its national security. It also furnishes interdepartmental analyses of this type of information or use by Government officials. The supervising authority of
14-911: The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency under the National Security Act of 1947 , which was implemented on 18 September 1947. Despite opposition from the military establishment, the United States Department of State , and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), President Truman established the National Intelligence Authority on 22 January 1946. The National Intelligence Authority and its operational extension,
21-647: The President of the United States of America , Harry Truman, calling Rear Admiral Sidney Souers and Fleet Admiral Willian D. Leahy to the White House , and presenting them both with black cloaks, black hats, and wooden daggers, before reading aloud the Presidential directive outlining their new duties. Source: National Intelligence Authority The National Intelligence Authority (NIA)
28-655: The CIG was the National Intelligence Authority . With the official end of World War II , newly elected President Truman and members of the US Congress decided to officially dissolve the vast intelligence agency of the OSS. The OSS has been specifically a wartime organization, and the war was over. Wild Bill Donovan is noted as having "exploded" upon the news that he only had two weeks to dissolve
35-660: The Central Intelligence Group (CIG), was disestablished after twenty months. The disestablishment of the NIA and CIG came with the National Security Act of 1947 , which established the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council . The NIA was composed of the Secretary of State , Secretary of War , Secretary of the Navy , and a personal representative of President Truman. The board oversaw
42-554: The OSS, and pressured the government to maintain some of the organization's strategic structures. CIG formally came into being with 1181/5, the President's directive of 22 January 1946, wherein the President authorized CIG to: "...perform for the benefit of said intelligence agencies, such services of common concern as the National Intelligence Authority determines can be more efficiently accomplished centrally." The activation ceremony of this intelligence agency two days later involved
49-620: Was the United States Government authority responsible for monitoring the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the successor intelligence agency of the Office of Strategic Services established by President Harry S. Truman 's presidential directive of 22 January 1946 in the aftermath of World War II . The National Intelligence Authority and Central Intelligence Group were both replaced respectively by
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