The Intelligence Community

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The Intelligence Community

he Central Intelligence Agency is not the sole proprietor of intelligence. The intelligence community includes:

• The Central Intelligence Agency. The director of central intelligence (DCI)is both the head of the CIA and of the intelligence community.
• The Defense Intelligence Agency. Produces military intelligence for the Defense secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff and combatant commands, such as Central Command that fought the Persian Gulf war.
• The National Security Agency. The world's single most productive collection agency, which specializes in SIGINT collection.
• The Bureau of Intelligence and Research. The State Department arm that produces finished intelligence in a form usable by diplomats.
• The National Reconnaissance Office. Handles satellite development and management, but doesn't analyze imagery. Well over half the intelligence budget goes into satellites.
• The National Imagery Management Agency. Created this year to centralize the production and analysis of imagery, whether from satellites or spy planes or Uncle Bob's Brownie.
• Intelligence branches of the four armed services:
  The Army Intelligence and Security Command
  Office of Naval Intelligence
  Air Intelligence Agency
  Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
• Agency intelligence divisions:
  FBI (counterintelligence and law enforcement)
  Treasury Department (economic intelligence)
  Energy Department (nuclear proliferation)
• Supra intelligence organizations:
  The National Intelligence Council (coordinator of interagency estimates, the National Intelligence Estimates)
  Community Management Staff (the DCI's main arm in trying to oversee this vast, sprawling empire)