The Foreign Broadcast Information Service was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. It monitored, translated, and disseminat
FBIS staff listening to foreign broadcasts in January 1945
FBIS radio recording equipment in 1945
The director of central intelligence was the head of the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2004, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
…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, the FBIS became part of that group. In 1946, the service was renamed the Foreign Broadcast Information…
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The 16-foot (5 m) diameter granite CIA seal in the lobby of the original headquarters building.
The entrance of the CIA headquarters
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