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"Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers appointed to be the first DCI"
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Signed by president Truman, the National Security Act of 1947 creates the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Central Intelligence Group (CIG) is replaced allowing the CIA to formally come into existence
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"CIA-assisted military coup overthrows the Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadeq"
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"CIA’s A-12 supersonic reconnaissance aircraft makes first official flight."
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"George H. W. Bush appointed DCI."
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"Al-Qa’ida terrorists crash airplanes into World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, PA, killing almost 3,000 people"
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"DCI Tenet writes memo – 'We are at war.'"
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"President Barack Obama announced that most-wanted fugitive Usama Bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qa’ida, was killed during an American operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan."
