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The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub. L.
Act of Congress

An act of Congress is a statute enacted by the United States government....
 No. 235, 80
80th United States Congress

The Eightieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
 Cong., 61 Stat. 496) was signed by United States
United States

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 President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
 on July 26, 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community
United States Intelligence Community

The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate Federal government of the United States agencies that work separately and together to conduct Intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States....
 apparatus in the aftermath of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
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The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub. L.
Act of Congress

An act of Congress is a statute enacted by the United States government....
 No. 235, 80
80th United States Congress

The Eightieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
 Cong., 61 Stat. 496) was signed by United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
 on July 26, 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community
United States Intelligence Community

The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate Federal government of the United States agencies that work separately and together to conduct Intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States....
 apparatus in the aftermath of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 confirmed James Forrestal
James Forrestal

James Vincent Forrestal was a United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States United States Secretary of Defense.Forrestal was a supporter of naval carrier battle group centered on aircraft carriers....
 as the first Secretary of Defense
United States Secretary of Defense

File:USSecDefflag.PNGThe United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense , concerned with the Military of the United States and Military of the United States....
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The Act merged the Department of War
United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, sometimes also called the War Office, was the department of the United States Federal government of the United States's Federal government of the United States#Executive branch responsible for the operation and maintenance of land Military of the United States from 1789 until September 18, 1947,...
 and the Department of the Navy
United States Department of the Navy

The United States Department of the Navy was established by an Act of Congress on April 30, 1798, to provide administrative and technical support, and civilian leadership to the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps ....
 into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense. It was also responsible for the creation of a separate Department of the Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 from the existing Army Air Forces
United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II. The direct precursor to the United States Air Force, its peak size was over 2.4 million men and women in service and nearly 80,000 aircraft in 1944, and 783 domestic bases in December 1943....
. Initially, each of the three service secretaries maintained quasi-cabinet status, but the act was amended on August 10, 1949, to assure their subordination to the Secretary of Defense. At the same time, the NME was renamed as the Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Military of the United States....
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Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council
United States National Security Council

The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and Foreign relations of the United States matters with his senior National Security Advisor s and United States Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the Presid...
, a central place of coordination for national security
National security

The late political scientist Hans Morgenthau, author of Politics Among Nations, defines national security as the integrity of the national territory and its institutions....
 policy in the executive branch
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, and the Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
, the States' first peacetime intelligence agency
Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a Government Government agency that is devoted to the information gathering for purposes of national security and Defense ....
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The act and its changes, along with the Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine is a set of principles of U.S. foreign policy declared by List of Presidents of the United States Harry S. Truman in a 1947 address to Congress to request $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey, as well as authorization to send American economic and military advisers to the two countries....
 and the Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the countries of Western Europe, and repelling communism after World War II....
, were major components of the Truman administration's Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 strategy.

The bill signing took place aboard Truman's C-54
C-54 Skymaster

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 presidential aircraft Sacred Cow, the predecessor of Air Force One
Air Force One

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See also

Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report
Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report

The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report was one of the most influential evaluations of the functioning of the United States Intelligence Community, and in particular, the Central Intelligence Agency ....