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The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub.L. 80-253, 61 Stat. 495, enacted July 26, 1947) was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II.
Act of July 26, 1947 [National Security Act of 1947] 61 Stat. 503 61 Stat. 505: Established U.S. Air Force. Established Joint Chiefs of Staff comprising the service chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the chief of staff to the commander in chief, if one exists [replaced by chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949 (63 Stat. 581)].
The National Security Act of 1947 created the post-World War II national security establishment. The Army Air Forces, already semi-autonomous within the Army during the war, became an independent United States Air Force co-equal with the Army and Navy.
U.S. National Security organization has remained essentially stable since July 26, 1947, when U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947. Together with its 1949 amendment, this act: Created the National Military Establishment (NME) which became known as the Department of Defense when the act was amended in 1949.
The lives of 139 fallen CIA officers are represented by 139 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the Original Headquarters building.. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) dates from September 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law.
The first major analysis, following the National Security Act of 1947, was chaired by former President Herbert Hoover, with a Task Force on National Security Organization under Ferdinand Eberstadt, one of the drafters of the National Security Act and a believer in centralized intelligence.
The National Security Resources Board was a United States government agency created by the National Security Act of 1947 whose purpose was to advise the President, in times of war, on how to mobilize natural resources, manpower, and the scientific establishment to meet the demands of the Department of Defense. [1]