A Central Intelligence Agency Study Of The Early Cold War (1947-1961)

With the end of World War II, the Soviet Union the two countries also from allies into rivals, the bipolar pattern of gradually taking shape. In order to meet the new situation in the Cold War, the U.S. government to proceed with institutional reform, and in 1947 passed the "National Security Law", established the Central Intelligence Agency.As the situation in the US-Soviet Cold War intensified in the CIA, are also rapidly from simple intelligence and counter-intelligence functions of the outward expansion, to the 20th century, the early 50s, had been expressly conferred on the function of covert operations, and this Functions In addition to promoting the implementation of U.S. foreign policy, but also become an important symbol of the Central Intelligence Agency.However, the covert operations is not the most important functions of the CIA, intelligence analysis is still the focus of the work of the CIA. The early Cold War, is the formation of its intelligence assessment systems and improve the period. In this discussion period, the CIA carried out not only the adjustment of the organizational structure, ability to assess the rapid rise in intelligence, the intelligence assessment of the authority of the product has also been widely recognized, and thus the U.S. government's policy-makers had a tremendous impact.In this paper, based on the careful combing and analysis to the U.S. government declassified documents on, the final attempt to describe the problem as follows: (1) Due to the emergence of the Cold War, intelligence work experience increases, and the U.S. government and in-depth awareness of the issue of intelligence, the CIA in 1947, emerged as possible; (2) In the early Cold War, intelligence analysis is the CIA's main functions and work. After Smith's institutional reforms, its intelligence analysis systems and the ability to be an initial improvement; (3) In the early Cold War, the CIA's covert operations to a large extent achieved its expected results, and, as the situation in the Cold War, sharp, the functions of the CIA's covert operations gradually expanded and clear, gradually became an important tool in the foreign policy of the United States.