Description based on contents, viewed January 2, 2008. "This volume is part of a retrospective subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that fills in gaps in the volumes of the Truman and Eisenhower subseries. At the time the Truman and Eisenhower volumes were prepared, the Office of the Historian did not have access to documents related to intelligence. This is the second volume that documents the institutional foundations of the relationship between foreign policy and intelligence. The first, Foreign Relations, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, was published in 1996"--p. iii-iv.