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Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA | Tim Weiner | Ep. 167

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The First CIA Operation That Changed the Course of History

The OSS was the World War II civilian operation that was the intelligence service that anticipated the CIA. When the CIA was formed in 1947, 200 people, most of them were OSS veterans. The tragic flaw of the early CIA was to think that they could do what the OSS had done.

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