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

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Harry Truman - I Do Not Want an American Gestapo

Harry Truman disestablished the OSS in September 1945. Bill Donovan went and pitched his idea to Truman who shot it down quite easily. When the CIA was created out of the fragments and ashes of the OSS, 75 years ago, as we speak, the idea was that American intelligence before World War II had been fragmented.

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