There have been many important people in the Central Intelligence Agency(C.I.A.) From the very beginning around 1941. General William “Wild Bill” Donovan is the one that I see as the most important. This is because he is the person responsible for the forming of the C.I.A. He made many contributions to the creation of this agency. He was the person who realized the U.S. needed an agency to base all it’s secret information in and he was the one who suggested the secret agencies to our presidents. After all of his persuading and explaining, he was appointed the first coordinator of information which was the head of our nations first secret agency.

Donovan began as a colonel in the United States Army in the First World War. He then became Calvin Coolidge’s assistant attorney general. Soon enough he was a millionaire lawyer on Wall Street and greatly admired our new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but opposed his New Deal. This landed him as an advisor to president Roosevelt and as a General now, he began looking into covert operations of the U.S. and started organizing people and information which would in turn help the U.S. a great deal and be the beginnings of what is n

Through all of his hard work, determination, and smart thinking, William “Wild Bill” Donovan has been called the father of the C.I.A. He has also been known as The Last Hero which is the title of a biography of his life written by Anthony Cave Brown. This is a book of how he influenced the presidents and came to be known as this Last Hero. He is an incredible man who took on the feat of the world and conquered it. There is not one doubt in my mind and shall not be in any person’s mind who knows of him, that he is the founder of the C.I.A. and is seen as the most important person to them since the unofficial beginning in 1941 and the official beginning in 1947.

This agency built networks of spies, conducted sabotage, ran covert operations, and also organized, kept, and guarded all of this vital information. This was a very well run organization but yet it was created on short notice and was not permanent. It would only be later that Donovan would convince our president to permanently set up an organization such as this. After all of his efforts and only a temporary agency, Donovan seemed to have become doomed for failure in 1945 when president Roosevelt died. Furthermore, our new president, Harry S. Truman, decided to disband the OSS

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