The CIA: everything you wanted to know
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The History of the CIA
The CIA had antecedents. In the First World War, there was an organization that nobody's ever heard of and therefore it was a great success as an intelligence agency because they are supposed to be secrets. The FBI at the end of the 1930s was really the only agency in America with any kind of coordinated intelligence capability. And President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as the crisis developed in Europe, began to rely on the FBI more and more for the centralization of intelligence.
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