CIA

=**__The CIA__**= == By Nicole and Tony

__**Overview**__
During World War II, The USA decided that they needed to step up homeland security therefore implementing the CIA, a multidimensional, nondepartmental anaylsis unit. The Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) gathered a group of qulified people to track down and find out different information on the Axis powers. Reseach and Analysis helped greatly in the war times, and were caried out to this day. President Truman paid large sums of money to the R&A in late 1945 due to the fact that a great deal of the OSS was being laid off. The group then faded away for a while, back into secret, and was reestablished in 1946 as the Central Intellegence Agency Worldwide.

__**Defintion:**__
The **Central Intelligence Agency** (**CIA**) is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States Governement.



__**Before the CIA**__
The United States has been involved in intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been done on a government-wide basis. Before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in talks with his government about the security of their homeland, and he wanted to establish defences from within. He spoke to New York lawyer William J. Donovan and requested that he draft a plan for an intelligence service. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was established in June 1942 and intended to gather information and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies. During the War, the OSS supplied policy makers with facts and intelligence estimates and often played an important role in directly aiding military campaigns. But the OSS never received complete power over all foreign intelligence activities. ([])

__**Switching of Powers**__
With all the problems surrounding the Civil war and communist Russia, President Truman felt great pressure to get a government regulated intelligence agency. They soon after had to let go many more members and changed the name to Central Intelligence Group. The CIG was formed to fulfill two missions: to provide strategic warning and to conduct important clandestine activities. Almost 2 years later, in 1948, the group was abandoned, as directed by the National Security Council. Soon after the CIA was reformed. The Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence that affects national security. The act and changes of 1947 also stated that, prohibited the CIA from engaging in law enforcement activity and restricted its internal security functions. The CIA carries out its responsibilities subject to various directives and controls by the president and the NSC.

__**Present**__
The Central Intelligence Agency presently works with the government to solve large scale problems. They deal with different countries, and are involved in countless peacekeeping projects. The CIA is here to serve and protect our people of North America!