Cold War Beginnings CIA Files

Cold War Beginnings CIA Files 

416 pages of selected CIA files covering the beginning of the Cold War from 1946 to 1950. Files comprised from pages of daily and weekly summaries and interpretations provided to President Truman.

The documents in this volume were produced by the analytical arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), between the latter's founding in 1946 and the end of 1950. During this formative period of the Cold War, President Harry S. Truman struggled to understand the menacing behavior of the Soviet Union and his erstwhile ally, Joseph Stalin. The analysts of CIG/CIA contributed to this process by providing the President with daily, weekly, and monthly summaries and interpretations of the most significant world events. They also provided ad hoc papers that analyzed specific issues of interest to the administration.

Topics of the 208 excerpted reports include: Political Tension in Bulgaria, Communist Maneuvers in Hungary Prospects in Indochina, Prospects for Vietnam Settlement, USSR: Soviet Plans for Exploiting US Aid Program, Growing Soviet Interest in China, Soviet Expansionism in Korea, Possible Kremlin Disagreement on Tactics, Prospects for Invasion of South Korea by the North, and Comments on Soviet Plans Against Tito.

Source: CIA History Staff