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Signs National Security Act of 1947

President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, reorganizing U.S. defense and intelligence structures and creating the National Military Establishment (later Department of Defense), the National Security Council, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Signs National Security Act of 1947

The act permanently reshaped U.S. national security policy and institutions at the start of the Cold War by centralizing civilian control of the armed services and establishing a peacetime national intelligence agency.

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