<p>“The State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military hampered the Central Intelligence Agency in its infancy by bickering about authority, according to a long-secret history of the agency’s early years. The 1,000-page narrative, written in 1953 by the agency’s first historian, Arthur B. Darling, is the first CIA document to be declassified and transferred to the National Archives for release to the public under the agency’s historical review program.”</p><p>—<i>New York Times</i></p>
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Arthur B. Darling taught American history at Yale University and Phillips Academy. From 1952 to 1954 he served as historian for the CIA.
Bruce D. Berkowitz has held various positions in the intelligence community and also served on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Allan E. Goodman, Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, was employed by the CIA from 1975 to 1980, serving as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence in 1979-1980.
Berkowitz and Goodman are the authors of Strategic Intelligence for American National Security (1989).