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  2. National Security Act of 1947 - Wikipedia

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    National Security Act of 1947; Long title: An Act to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, a Department of the Air Force; and for the coordination of the activities of the National Military Establishment with other departments and agencies of the Government concerned ...

  3. Oversight of United States covert operations - Wikipedia

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    The National Security Act of 1947 did not explicitly authorize the CIA to conduct covert operations, although Section 102(d)(5) was sufficiently vague to permit abuse. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At the very first meetings of the NSC in late 1947, the perceived necessity to "stem the flow of communism" in Western Europe —particularly Italy —by overt and ...

  4. History of the Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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    The gradual Soviet takeover of Romania, the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet blockade of Berlin, CIA assessments of the Soviet atomic bomb project, the Korean War, [26] and then, when the 300,000 Chinese troops waiting at the Korean border entered the war, [27] all, arguably, failures of Central intelligence of the highest profile ...

  5. Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration - Wikipedia

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    The National Security Act of 1947 merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (which was later renamed as the Department of Defense). The law also separated the U.S. Air Force from the Army. It created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Council (NSC).

  6. National Intelligence Authority - Wikipedia

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    The National Intelligence Authority (NIA) was the United States Government authority responsible for monitoring the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the successor intelligence agency of the Office of Strategic Services established by President Harry S. Truman's presidential directive of 22 January 1946 [1] in the aftermath of World War II.

  7. National Security Act - Wikipedia

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    National Security Act may refer to: National Security Act (India), law to provide for preventive detention; National Security Act (South Korea), regarding seditious activities; National Security Act of 1947, a United States law that established the Central Intelligence Agency; National Security Act 2017 (Canada)

  8. 1947 in American television - Wikipedia

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    Now WDIV-TV, the WWJ-TV calls now reside at CBS' O&O in Detroit: June 27 Washington, D.C. WNBW: 4 NBC Now WRC-TV September 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: WFIL-TV: 6 DuMont Now ABC O&O station WPVI-TV October 3 Washington, D.C. WTVW (later WMAL-TV) 7 CBS: Now ABC affiliate WJLA-TV October 27 Baltimore, Maryland: WMAR-TV: 2 Independent

  9. Category:1947 American television series debuts - Wikipedia

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    Television series which originated in the United States and began in the year 1947. Shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category.