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The book “Legacy of Ashes” opens with “All Harry Truman wanted was a newspaper” and quotes from a letter Truman wrote saying the CIA was not meant to be to “a spy organization. That was never the intention.” Was Truman being honest? What do we know of Truman’s views regarding post-war intelligence?

by /u/ProgressIsAMyth in /r/AskHistorians

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