World War 2

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Re: World War 2

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MacArthur refused to allow the OSS (later the CIA) to operate in the Pacific Theatre and in Korea because he wanted only the intelligence reports that he approved of to reach the president.

From what little I’ve been reading up on, following this thread, it seems that was not because of his motives but because of his distrust of the OSS (Predecessor to the CIA) due to their cooperation with the NKVD. Most other literature seems to point to the same reasons. Although that does fall in line with that fact that he was a selfish General but then which military figure isn’t It is suggested he wanted a conflict and deliberately ignored the intelligence. The CIA evidence was obvious but he ignored it.

Again though, in line with your commentary but I thought it would be useful to put this out to make his reasons more obvious to other members.