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     The above transfer to the State Department will provide you with resources which we
have agreed you will need to aid in the development of our foreign policy, and will assure that
pertinent experience accumulated during the war will be preserved and used in meeting the
problems of the peace.  Those readjustments and reductions which are required in order to gear
the transferred activities and resources into State Department operations should be made as soon
as practicable.
 
     I particularly desire that you take the lead in developing a comprehensive and co-ordinated
foreign intelligence program for all Federal agencies concerned with that type of activity.  This
should be done through the creation of an inter-departmental group, heading up under the State
Department, which would, formulate plans for my approval. This procedure will permit the
plannig of complete coverage of the foreign intelligence field and the assigning and controlling of
operations in such manner that the needs of both the individual agencies and the Government as a
whole will be met with maximum effectiveness.
 
                              Sincerely yours,
 
                                   HARRY S. TRUMAN
 
 
 
 
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