On November 18, 1944, General William Joseph Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), proposed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt the establishment of a peacetime foreign intelligence service that would obtain intelligence through overt and covert means, provide strategic guidance, determine national intelligence objectives, and coordinate information collected by all government agencies.

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