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The modern U.S. foreign intelligence apparatus is not sui generis. It is, instead, the product of evolution both in the United States’ perceptions about its role in the world and in the bureaucratic architecture that Washington has established to contend with global developments that impact the homeland. Although the accepted narrative of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA)’s origin focuses on the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and that organization’s operations abroad, there is another contributor—the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—to the formation of the United States’ foreign intelligence apparatus.
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