Explanation: Monroe and Minister to France Robert Livingston would try to buy land east of the Mississippi or in New Orleans itself, or, if all else failed, to secure U.S. access to the river. Jefferson authorized them to negotiate up to $10 million.
President Jefferson authorized Robert Livingston and James Monroe to purchase all the Louisiana Territory This agreement was known as the Louisiana Purchase. The purchase itself included land from fifteen present day states including portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado.
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). hope it helps.
