Birth of the CIA - Allen Dulles - Forgotten History

When people fly into Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, very few know why it has that name let alone know anything about the man behind it. During WW II Brigadier General William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan ran the Office of Strategic Services ran secret operations all over the world, from Asia to Europe hiring and recruiting civilians and active duty military as covert operatives. The experiences of the OSS saw the need to create a specialized organization that could handle intelligence gathering and covert operations with plausible deniability. The successor of the OSS, the Central Intelligence Agency continued that legacy with very mixed and controversial results. Written and Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production. ============================================================================ Patreon page: Join this channel to get access to perks: ============================================================================ Thanks for watching. Please subscribe using the link below so we can continue making new content. Your subscription to the channel means a lot to us! ============================================================================ About us: Host/Military Historian/Film Consultant/US Army and USMC Veteran - Colin Heaton Screenwriter/Director/Producer/US Marine Corps Veteran - Michael Droberg For collaboration and advertisements contact: droknows@ Editor - Alexander Keane @ ============================================================================ Associated channel for sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, and film related topics: ============================================================================ -COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1976 - Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use“ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #forgottenhistorychannel Sources: Radio Free Europe Wilford, Hugh (2013). America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465019656. Radio Liberty Jones, Matthew. “The ’Preferred Plan’: The Anglo-American Working Group Report on Covert Action in Syria, 1957. Intelligence and National Security 19(3), Autumn 2004; pp. 401–415. Dulles, Allen Wells (1966). The Secret Surrender: The Classic Insider’s Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWII. Popular Library. Vol. 60 (1st ed.). Guilford, CT: Harper & Row. ISBN 9789160042242. Heaton, Colin D. and Anne Marie Lewis (2021) Above the Reich: deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids and Other war Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words. Dutton/Penguin-Random House. ISBN 780593183885. Dulles, Allen Welsh (1963). The Craft of Intelligence: America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. ISBN 1592282970. Karl Wolff interviews, March-May 1984. Kinzer, Stephen () All The Shah’s Men: An American Coup And The Roots of Middle East Terror. Dulles, Allen Welsh; Petersen, Nancy (1996). Petersen, Neal H. (ed.). From Hitler’s Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942–1945 (1st ed.). Pennsylvania, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01485-2