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Events on Saturday 26 July 1947 1
1947National Security Act signedLaw creates the CIA and the National Security CouncilPresident Truman signed the National Security Act on 26 July 1947. It created the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council and a separate US Air Force, and it placed the armed services under a single National Military Establishment. The act reshaped the American national security system for the Cold War.