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General William “Wild Bill” Donovan 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