So far, I'm the author of the only existing biography of the OSS G-2 colonel, later DDCI at CIA, who hired Dr. Kent and wrote the premier "review" of Kent's book for the "New York Times Book Review" in the 1940s. His name was William Harding Jackson (1901-1971). Both worked with Donovan during the OSS years and were involved with the one individual at Arlington Hall SIGINT headquarters, Col. Carter W. Clarke (1896-1987), who ignored FDR's wife Elenor Roosevelt's order to stop collecting Soviet SIGINT message traffic during WW-II between Moscow & New York. Col. Clarke founded the ultra-secret "VENONA Project" in 1939, which led to the arrest, conviction, and execution of many Soviet KGB spies during the Cold War years. Unlike most of the academia in Government, Dr. Kent was one of the few who knew where skeletons were buried - thus, his long career as the final editor of the President's Daily Brief (PDF) for 5 US Presidents over 15+ years. Through the end of the Cold War, "Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy" was "THE Bible" for clandestine and covert activities at the CIA. This book is where it all started for today's Intelligence Community in 1945-46. It is a "MUST READ" for any serious intelligence analyst or operator.
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