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Ne• APPROVED FOR RELEASE BY THE CENTRAL INTEWGENCE AGENCY DATE:2111 THE DONOVAN PLAN FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY The memorandum from General Donovan to President Roosevelt and the draft directive attached to it are really of historic importance. A limited number of copies was made and these were sent to leading cabinet members for comment as well as to the JCS. The JCS published the two papers as JCS 1181 which was given additional but still very limited 1440X0400A-...