Sidney W. Souers Quotes
There is an urgent need to develop the highest possible intelligence on the USSR in the shortest possible time.
At the time the USSR was our ally. Neither the military or the state department focused in gaining intelligence on any ally and J. Edgar Hoover had for years focused on intelligence about communists in the United States but not in Russia and the rest of the world. These other agencies treated Souers with disdain or ignored him, but this memo showed the importance of Truman’s idea of having an independent intelligence agency to inform the President.
Sidney W. Souers, 1892–1973, First Director of Central Intelligence, Navy Rear Admiral & Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Top Secret Memorandum, 1946
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Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political positions.
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