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General William J. Donovan reviews Operational Group members in Bethesda, MD, prior to their departure for China in 1945.

to help contain Communism during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The CIA looked for “the enemy within” the United States, and its overseas agents undertook dangerous covert

operations to gather information, conducting a “war of spies” with Soviet agents of the KGB. America’s first real battle against Communist forces was the Korean War (1950–1953), when the CIA gathered military information using Ko- rean and Chinese agents.

Learn how early intelligence operatives survived in the field.

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