Today in History

July 26, 1947

National Security Act of 1947

In response to the growing tensions with the USSR during the Cold War, on this date U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into United States law. The Act simultaneously created the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.

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