The CIA (TRIH ep 125)
1947 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host a wide-ranging interview with Professor Hugh Wilford on the history, culture and controversies of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wilford traces the CIA’s lineage from the OSS in World War II through its official creation in 1947, explaining early Anglo‑American influences and the patrician, Ivy League character of many founding officers.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1947
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)