The Cia And The Marshall Plan

Accompany with the World War II ending, the intelligence system of the United States started to reform the traditional dispersal intelligence work. The United States intelligence organization completed to change from wartime to the peaceful period in the 1947, realized the standardization and the systematism of the intelligence work. Central Intelligence Agency commenced the power expansion by the opportunity of Marshall Plan practice; in fact, this kind of expansion of the central intelligence organization had begun from the Central Intelligence Group. At the same time, the extended work scope of the Central Intelligence Agency had also promoted Marshall Plan to put smoothly into practice. Behind the phenomenon of the power expansion of the Central Intelligence Agency: On the one hand, it is the outcome of United States intelligence system development and special period; On the other hand, the power of president expands since the Central Intelligence Agency face and respond to the president directly.This thesis is divided into three parts totally:First, the Central Intelligence Group and Marshall Plan appear. The period of Central Intelligence Group is the transition period of the United States intelligence system from decentralization to unification. It's intelligence estimate about politics and economic circumstance of post-war Europe is one important gist to Marshall Plan when it being put forward.Second , the Central Intelligence Agency and Marshall Plan startup. The intelligence and report of Central Intelligence Agency on the dangerous degree in the European condition, the threat of Soviet Union and the foreground of Marshall Plan etc. had impelled the congress to grant Marshall Plan formally.Thirdly, the Central Intelligence Agency and Marshall Plan carries out and ends. During the period at Marshall Plan, the Central Intelligence Agency has not only collected the related intelligence of other national, but to precede the covert action in some nations. All these had pushedMarshall Plan into practice.