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THE CREATION OF THE CIA For Vandenberg, the pieces were falling into place. The CIG's fundamental weakness remained, nevertheless. " Houston's vantage point enabled him not only to speak with authority, but also to appreciate fully the implications of the predicament. Souers had appointed him general counsel for the CIG. This appointment required Houston to examine the paper trail that led to its establishment. The problem went beyond the constraints imposed by Truman's memorandum of January 1946 that so circumscribed the power of the CIG as to define its role as more of a coordinator for the NIA than an operating agency in its own right.

He was not one to rock the boat, however, and even if so inclined, the CIA's inherent weaknesses in 1947 and his own ambiguous role as its director severely undermined his influence. S. intelligence community. The last of these responsibilities caused problems from the start, and severely constrained Hillenkoetter's ability to produce the kind of national intelligence he preferred. " When Souers had instructed Houston to prepare enabling legislation for the CIG, he had assumed that the DCI would reign supreme over the intelligence community's other components and their heads.

Smith was surprisingly unenthusiastic. S. intelligence agencies, but that would produce a very cumbersome process. He preferred that the Intelligence Advisory Committee approve the creation of a standing group to advise the Air Force on intelligence needs. There matters stood through the first eighteen months of the Eisenhower administration. Using reconfigured jet bombers (such as the RB-57A-1, nicknamed the "Heart Throb"), the Air Force conducted overflights of Eastern Europe and Asia in order to acquire intelligence.

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