


That was never the intention when it was organized." "It was intended merely as a center for keeping the President informed on what was going on in the world." He insisted that he never wanted the CIA "to act as a spy organization. "It was not intended as a 'Cloak & Dagger Outfit'!" he wrote. When the new Central Intelligence Agency arose from its ashes, Truman wanted it to serve him solely as a global news service, delivering daily bulletins. But Donovan's OSS was never built to last. Donovan, as America's wartime intelligence agency. "When I took over," he wrote in a letter to a friend years later, "the President had no means of coordinating the intelligence from around the world." Roosevelt had created the Office of Strategic Services, under the command of General William J. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Truman knew nothing about the development of the atomic bomb or the intentions of his Soviet allies. Catapulted into the White House by the death of President Franklin D.
