From: Mike Hunter on
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:
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>> 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.
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> OSS!!! I think the SAS was the Nazi equivalent!!!! ;)
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> Yes, it was the OSS first, and then the OSS was kind of split, with one
> half becoming the CIA.
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> Before the OSS was the CIO, but they were, OBVIOUSLY ineffectual!
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>> "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.
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