Thus the National Security Act of 1947 laid the foundations of a national security state: the National Security Council (NSC), the National Security Resources Board (NSRB), the Munitions Board, the Research and Development Board, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[131] Before the act was passed, Secretary of State George Marshall warned President Truman that it granted the new intelligence agency in particular powers that were ”almost unlimited,”[132] a criticism of the CIA that Truman would echo much too late—soon
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