Foreign Broadcast Information Service: Difference between revisions

With the termination of the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] following the end of [[World War II]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-9621-termination-the-office-strategic-services-and-disposition-its|title=Executive Order 9621—Termination of the Office of Strategic Services and Disposition of Its Functions|date=September 20, 1945|via=presidency.ucsb.edu/ The American Presidency Project}}</ref> the service was transferred to the [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army]]. Like many other wartime organizations, the service was threatened with disbandment. The possibility of its disbandment was roundly criticized in many different quarters, which helped ensure its survival. When President Harry S. Truman created the [[Central Intelligence Group]] under the direction of a [[Director of Central Intelligence]] by presidential directive on January 22, 1946,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945-50Intel/d71|title=71. Presidential Directive on Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Activities|publisher=U.S. State Department Historian|date=January 22, 1946}}</ref> the FBIS became part of that group.{{sfn|Roob|1969|pp=298-304}}