United States, Intelligence Community, President Truman
President Truman in collaboration with the Congress did find out that the United States could not meet their security needs without a defined structure for decision making. They had to find a way to deal with intelligence issues in the country. On this note, the president, in 1947 , did sign the "National Security Act", which was a part of legislation on the intelligence community. The present day intelligence structure was formed from this simple structure. The USA had the mechanism to do so. Its public also supported this move and it was further boosted by allies who saw to it that America was helped to achieve its goals. USA in the first place took their satellites into the space to help them watch vast areas of the world.
The other initiative was the use of spy planes . They moved into their air space to ensure that their territory was not invaded. Many posts were placed strategically all over the world. The intelligence team then listened to the messages relayed on these stations. The country took the responsibility of training and developing manpower for example: analysts, technicians, program managers. Much work was done to train these people on foreign languages. USA invested more in the area and space studies which would come to help them develop the intelligence community in years to come.
[...] Post Cold War era It saw the endless efforts to make DCI to be the hub of intelligence community. The media undermined their efforts with series of disclosures on their cases. In the better part of the decade, the community underwent many changes. They came up with new reforms and their oversight also changed. For example, President Nixon (1970) gave the directive to find out how the structure of the body should be changed to ensure efficiency in information collection. [...]
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[...] They had to find a way to deal with intelligence issues in the country. On this note, the president, in did sign the “National Security which was a part of legislation on the intelligence community. The present day intelligence structure was formed from this simple structure. The USA had the mechanism to do so. Its public also supported this move and it was further boosted by allies who saw to it that America was helped to achieve its goals. USA in the first place took their satellites into the space to help them watch vast areas of the world. [...]
[...] In a nutshell, the United States intelligence community has gone through many changes to reach us today. It evolved from a simple structure initiated by President Truman to the complex organization that is present today. It has experienced challenges especially during the Nixon and ford era where the community that had been criticized of having many scandals. Many bodies and organs have been added to the intelligence community to have a comprehensive system of investigation that covers the United States and beyond[4]. [...]
[...] This order also set up a committee known as the Foreign Intelligence and was to be part of the “National Security Council”. The DCI chaired the council. He was to report to the president directly, concerning resource allocation on the intelligence activities. Many restrictions were made. An example of such is barring the intelligence from using assassinations that were part of the US policy. The Select Committee on in intelligence was created in the year 1976. A year later, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was created. These two committees authorized the expenditure of the intelligence activities. [...]
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