ABSTRACT
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and especially now, has been and is only one among several providers of intelligence to US civilian and military decision makers. As to the specific question of US intelligence documentation on the Marshall Plan years in Austria, such intelligence information is fragmentary and almost non-existent about the CIA. A significant quantitative indicator of continuity between the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the CIA is provided by the fact that, in 1948, fully a third of the personnel of the CIA had formerly served in the OSS. While the OSS in Austria concentrated its efforts on what was going on in Austria at the time, politically, militarily, economically, and socially, the Strategic Services Unitsoon shifted its focus from mainly Austrian matters to monitoring events and developments in the neighboring countries to the southeast.
