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From: Mike Hunter on 19 Oct 2009 18:09 You got it, the OSS. "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message news:pan.2009.10.19.20.37.27.51467(a)e86.GTS... > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:07:49 -0400, Mike Hunter wrote: > >> Me thinks you may be thinking of the wrong agency. My memory is a bit >> rusty but If I am correct that agency was called the SAS, or something >> like that, during WWII. The SAS was then morphed into the CIA when it >> was create after WWII, but the CIA was not allowed to interact with any >> other government agency WITHIN the US, it could only operate outside of >> the US, until the Patriot Act was enacted after 9 /11 and remained after >> the Patriot Act was continued by further action in Congress. > > OSS!!! I think the SAS was the Nazi equivalent!!!! ;) > > Yes, it was the OSS first, and then the OSS was kind of split, with one > half becoming the CIA. > > Before the OSS was the CIO, but they were, OBVIOUSLY ineffectual! > > > >> >> >> >> >> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message >> news:pan.2009.10.19.19.51.46.362585(a)e86.GTS... >>> Someone Beck had on (I think) Friday said the "CIA was created after >>> WWII..." to spy on countries and overthrow unfriendly governments >>> (paraphrase on the second half...). >>> >>> *WRONG*!!!!!!!! >>> >>> The CIA was created very shortly following the aftermath of the attack >>> on Pearl Harbor. >>> >>> During the investigation, it was discovered the Army had certain >>> information, and the Navy had certain information, and that if that >>> information had been combined, correlated and analyzed, the Navy would >>> have known of the attack about a month before it happened. One high >>> ranking officer had even estimated the attack for the last Sunday in >>> November, one week before the actual attack. >>> >>> The CIA was created as a clearing house for such information so as to >>> ensure such an attack didn't happen again, and to correlate information >>> between branches of the Armed Forces and other government agencies. >>> >>> so there. >>> >>> >>> >>> > |