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The Intelligence Community of the United States is an organization of several executive branch agencies within the federal government that are responsible for foreign and domestic intelligence, military planning, and espionage. The Intelligence Community was established by Executive Order 12333, enacted on December 4, 1981 by President Ronald Reagan. 1 Purpose
The Intelligence Community was established to provide a direct method for the United States' disparate intelligence agencies to share data, coordinate activites and eliminate redundancy. Executive Order 12333 charges the Intelligence Community with six primary objectives:
- Collection of information needed by the President, the National Security Council, the Secretaries of State and Defense, and other Executive Branch officials for the performance of their duties and responsibilities;
- Production and dissemination of intelligence;
- Collection of information concerning, and the conduct of activities to protect against, intelligence activities directed against the U.S., international terrorist and/or narcotics activities, and other hostile activities directed against the U.S. by foreign powers, organizations, persons and their agents;
- Special activities;
- Administrative and support activities within the US and abroad necessary for the performance of authorized activities; and
- Such other intelligence activities as the President may direct from time to time.
2 Organization
The Intelligence Community reports to the Director of Central Intelligence, who is the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. (However, the IC is entity distinct from the CIA.) The DCI reports directly to the National Security Council and the President of the United States.
2.1 Management
The day-to-day management of the Intelligence Community is performed by the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management , who is assisted by four direct subordinates:
- The Assistant DCI for Collection (ADCI/C);
- the Assistant DCI for Analysis and Production (ADCI/AP);
- the Senior Acquisition Executive (SAE); and
- the Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs (ExDir/ICA).
2.2 Member agencies
The Intelligence Community currently consists of fifteen agencies and offices throughout several departments of the executive branch:
- United States Department of DefenseThe United States Department of Defense abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. The Department of Defense controls the U. military and is headquartered at The P
- Air Force Intelligence
- Army Intelligence
- Defense Intelligence AgencyOverview The Defense Intelligence Agency DIA , designated in 1986 as a United States Department of Defense combat support intelligence agency was established in 1961. It has over 7,000 military and civilian employees worldwide and is a major producer and
- Marine Corps Intelligence
- National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA , before 2004 known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA , was established October 1, 1996, by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency Act of 1996. The creation of NIMA followed more than a year of st
- National Reconnaissance OfficeThe National Reconnaissance Office NRO is a department of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) which designs, builds and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the United States government. It also coordinates collection and analysis of inform
- National Security AgencyThis article is about the NSA government agency. For other uses, see NSA (disambiguation). The National Security Agency (NSA is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the secur
- Navy Intelligence
There is also a National Intelligence Council.
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