WEST EXEC: THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY

Part II of The West Exec Papers

300 people decide what's true. They take orders from K Street.

In 1945, President Truman made a fateful decision. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was being dissolved. Most of it would become the CIA. But one piece, the Research and Analysis Branch, went somewhere unexpected.

It went to the State Department. It became the Bureau of Intelligence and …