Important to note that Morgenthau (Hans NOT Henry) was a consultant to the State Department when George Kennan headed its Policy Planning Staff. Why is this connection with George Keenan important? George Keenan was the main driver behind the creation of the Office of Policy Coordination.
Keenan also urged the creation of an ‘Office of Policy Coordination’ and spent most of the spring and summer of 1948 working out the details. In one memo to Lovett, he declared: ‘Time is running out on us. If we are to engage in intelligent, organized, covert activities appropriations must be obtained.’
He wanted the 'Office of Policy Coordination" to be small and to be managed by the State Department. He eventually conceded that the newly formed CIA could run it – with Keenan providing some oversight as an official representative of State. He put forward a list of six men who could lead the organization. His top choice, a handsome track star turned lawyer, Frank Wisner, got the job."- (page 126) from The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Keenan and the History of the Cold War, by Nicholas Thompson, Henry Holt and Company, 2009.
Morgenthau, Hans J. , Modern Science and Political Power, Columbia Law Review IN
Vol. 64, No. 8 (Dec., 1964)
(Vol. 64, No. 8, Dec., 1964 of Columbia Law Review on JSTOR), pp. 1386-1409 (24 pages)
See also his Politics Among Nations (1948) … interesting publication date in light of all the events of 1947.