The Agency: A History of the CIA

Secrecy, Democracy, and the Birth of the CIA (1x1)

Air date: Mar 01, 2019

Why did the United States create a secret foreign intelligence service in the first place? For the answer, examine three key periods of U.S. government intelligence before the birth of the CIA: the American Revolution to the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar years from 1945 to 1947.