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DECLASSIFIED AND APPROVED FOR RELEASE BY TUE CENTRAL INTEWGENCE AGENCY DATE: 2111 DONOVAN LETTER TO DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET WITH ACCOMPANYING "PRINCIPLES WHICH SHOULD GOVERN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTRALIZED U.S. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM." The unfortunate publicity given to the Donovan Plan and to JIC 239/5 forced them into a long retirement. Also during the first half of 1945 the tempo of the war in Europe and the Far East was such as to occupy the full - energies of all intelligence agencie...