Showing posts with label Central Intelligence Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Intelligence Group. Show all posts

Monday, October 19, 2026

Saturday, October 19, 1946. Spy agency musical chairs.

The Strategic Services Unit was Dissolved and all its personnel and functions were moved to the Office of Special Operations (OSO), which itself was part of the Central Intelligence Group.

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Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.


Thursday, January 22, 2026

Tuesday, January 22, 1946. Central Intelligence Group formed.

The Truman Administration formed the Central Intelligence Group, with its official duties being:

The Central Intelligence Group is a recently created interdepartmental organization in which the State, War, Navy, and sometimes other departments participate. It coordinates all activities of the Government involved in obtaining and analyzing information about foreign countries which this country needs for its national security. It also furnishes interdepartmental analyses of this type of information or use by Government officials.

The immediate predecessor, the OSS, had been disbanded. The Group itself would evolve into the CIA very quickly.

Qazi Muhammed establishing the Republic of Mahabad. He'd be hung by Iran in 1947.

The Socialist Soviet puppet state of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, also referred to as the Republic of Kurdistan, (Kurdish: کۆماری کوردستان, romanized: Komarî Kurdistan; Persian: جمهوری مهاباد,) was formed in the Soviet occupied portion of northern Iran.

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Monday, January 21, 1946. Steelworkers Strike.