Covert Operations, 1945-1952

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3. Covert Operations, 1945-1952
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1947-2021, FAS: Presidential Directives
1940-2021, FAS: Selected Executive Orders on National Security

1940-1953, CIA: Creating Global Intelligence (800+ documents)

1945-1952, DOS: Foreign Relations of the United States: 1945-1952 (101 vols.)

1 August 1952, Cryptome: CIA: Psychological Strategy Board: Status Report on the National Psychological Effort and First Progress Report of the PSB (PSB D-30) (PDF)

21 April 1952, Cryptome: CIA: EOP: Bureau of the Budget: The Psychological Strategy Board: Selected Aspects of Its Concept, Organization and Operations (PDF)

22 February 1952, Cryptome: CIA: Psychological Strategy Board: Report to the President (PDF)

January 1952, Cryptome: CIA: Psychological Operations Coordinating Committee: Psychological Operations Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3 (PDF)

23 October 1951, DOS: FRUS, 1950-1955, The Intelligence Community: NSC: Scope and Pace of Covert Operations (NSC 10/5) (PDF)
17 October 1951, CIA: Inventory of Cold War Weapons (PDF)

1949-1950, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: National Security Council Intelligence Directives (NSCID) Nos. 9-14

19 December 1950, CIA: Neutrality and Third-Force Tendencies in Western Europe (PDF)

14 April 1950, NSC: A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary on United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68) (PDF)

6 January 1950, Cryptome: NSC: National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 12: Avoidance of Publicity Concerning the Intelligence Agencies of the U.S. Government (PDF)
6 January 1950, Cryptome: NSC: National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 11: Security of Information on Intelligence Sources and Methods (PDF)

1 January 1949, Cryptome: NSC: The CIA and National Organization for Intelligence (Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report) (PDF)

1949, Cryptome: CIA: Organization and Functions (PDF)

25 January 1949, Cryptome: CIA: Clandestine Air Operations: Current Developments (PDF)

1947-1948, NSC: National Security Council Intelligence Directives (NSCID) Nos. 1-8 (PDF)

18 June 1948, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects (NSC 10/2)

12 February 1948, Cryptome: NSC: National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 7: Domestic Exploitation (re. CIA) (PDF)

13 January 1948, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 3: Coordination of Intelligence Production

17 December 1947, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: National Security Council Directive on Psychological Operations (NSC 4-A)
17 December 1947, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: Report by the National Security Council on Coordination of Foreign Information Measures (NSC 4)
9 December 1947, DOS: FRUS, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment: NSC: Draft Directive on Psychological Operations (NSC 4-A)

July 1947, Foreign Affairs: George Kennan: The Sources of Soviet Conduct (X Article)
26 July 1947, NSC: Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report: National Security Act of 1947 (PDF)

1940-1946, NARA: OSS: Records of the Office of Strategic Services 1940-1946: Record Group 226: OSS entries 210-220: Sources and Methods Files ("Previously Withdrawn Material")

16 December 1946, Cryptome: CIA: State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee: Psychological Warfare: Report of Ad Hoc Committee (PDF)

1 October 1946, Cryptome: Central Intelligence Group: Directive No. 15: Exploitation of American Business Concerns and Scientific, Educational and Religious Organizations with Connections Abroad and American Residents Travelling Abroad as Sources of Foreign Intelligence Information (PDF)

24 September 1946, Truman Papers: Clark Clifford, Special Counsel to the President: American Relations with the Soviet Union (PDF)

22 February 1946, Elsey Papers, Truman File: DOS: George Kennan telegram to George Marshall (Long Telegram) (PDF)

22 January 1946, WH: Presidential order re. National Intelligence Authority, Central Intelligence Group (PDF)