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F IECIASSINEI All APPROVED FOR REMISE IT TIE IEITIAL IITEWIENIE AKIO' DATE 201 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMAN • TO GENERAL DONOVAN ,20 September 1945 The letter belongs in this collection of documents because. of its reference in the third paragraph- to *the development of a coordinated system of foreign intelligence within the permanent framework of the Government." If it were iridicative of nothing else this statement would show that the idea of having an American peace-time, centralized intelli...