Doolittle Report, 1954 (original) (raw)
The Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (The Doolittle Report) is a 69-page formerly classified comprehensive study on the personnel, security, adequacy, and efficacy of the Central Intelligence Agency written by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle. United States President Dwight Eisenhower requested the report in July 1954 at the height of the Cold War and following coups in Iran and Guatemala. The report compares with other contemporary Cold War documents such as George Kennan's "X" article in Foreign Affairs, which recommended a policy of "containment" rather than direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, and NSC 68, the secret policy document produced in 1950, which recommended a similarly restrained policy of “gradual coercion.” Doolittle wrote with
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | The Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (The Doolittle Report) is a 69-page formerly classified comprehensive study on the personnel, security, adequacy, and efficacy of the Central Intelligence Agency written by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle. United States President Dwight Eisenhower requested the report in July 1954 at the height of the Cold War and following coups in Iran and Guatemala. The report compares with other contemporary Cold War documents such as George Kennan's "X" article in Foreign Affairs, which recommended a policy of "containment" rather than direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, and NSC 68, the secret policy document produced in 1950, which recommended a similarly restrained policy of “gradual coercion.” Doolittle wrote with an abandon-all-principles approach that conveyed the national fear that the United States faced the prospect of annihilation at the hands of the Soviet Union:“It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost,” Doolittle wrote. “There are no rules in such a game… If the United States is to survive, long standing concepts of ‘fair play’ must be reconsidered.” Doolittle’s forceful policy and language reflected the fear that motivated American citizens and policymakers in the wake of Soviet Communism. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 34713657 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 15198 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1082510683 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbc:Political_history_of_the_United_States dbr:Berlin_Blockade dbr:Deterrence_theory dbr:Operation_Gold dbr:Medal_of_Honor dbr:Cold_War dbr:George_F._Kennan dbr:Containment dbr:1953_Iranian_coup_d'état dbr:1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'état dbr:1960_U-2_incident dbr:Lockheed_U-2 dbr:Committee_on_International_Information_Activities dbr:Hoover_Commission dbr:Horace_Rowan_Gaither dbr:Polygraph dbr:NSC_5412/2_Special_Group dbc:1954_in_the_United_States dbc:Central_Intelligence_Agency dbc:Cold_War_military_history_of_the_United_States dbc:Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower dbr:Central_Intelligence_Agency dbr:Walter_Bedell_Smith dbr:William_Harding_Jackson dbr:Gaither_Report dbr:Czechoslovak_coup_d'état_of_1948 dbr:Dwight_D._Eisenhower dbr:Non-official_cover dbr:Harry_S._Truman dbr:Teller-Ulam_design dbr:Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor dbc:1954_documents dbr:China dbr:Jimmy_Doolittle dbr:John_Foster_Dulles dbr:Mao_Zedong dbc:Classified_information_in_the_United_States dbr:Soviet_Union dbr:Korean_War dbr:X_Article dbr:McCarthyism dbr:NSC_68 dbr:Allen_Welsh_Dulles dbr:Soviet_Communism |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Other_uses_of dbt:Reflist dbt:US_Intelligence_Reforms |
| dct:subject | dbc:Political_history_of_the_United_States dbc:1954_in_the_United_States dbc:Central_Intelligence_Agency dbc:Cold_War_military_history_of_the_United_States dbc:Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower dbc:1954_documents dbc:Classified_information_in_the_United_States |
| rdf:type | yago:Artifact100021939 yago:Creation103129123 yago:EndProduct103287178 yago:Object100002684 yago:Oeuvre103841417 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Product104007894 yago:Whole100003553 yago:Wikicat1954Works |
| rdfs:comment | The Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (The Doolittle Report) is a 69-page formerly classified comprehensive study on the personnel, security, adequacy, and efficacy of the Central Intelligence Agency written by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle. United States President Dwight Eisenhower requested the report in July 1954 at the height of the Cold War and following coups in Iran and Guatemala. The report compares with other contemporary Cold War documents such as George Kennan's "X" article in Foreign Affairs, which recommended a policy of "containment" rather than direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, and NSC 68, the secret policy document produced in 1950, which recommended a similarly restrained policy of “gradual coercion.” Doolittle wrote with (en) |
| rdfs:label | Doolittle Report, 1954 (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Doolittle Report, 1954 yago-res:Doolittle Report, 1954 wikidata:Doolittle Report, 1954 https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4isEz |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Doolittle_Report,_1954?oldid=1082510683&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Doolittle_Report,_1954 |
| is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of | dbr:Doolittle_Report |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Doolittle_Report dbr:CIA_activities_in_the_Soviet_Union dbr:Jimmy_Doolittle dbr:Vernon_O._Johnson |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Doolittle_Report,_1954 |