Intelligence community

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.

Table of contents

1 Purpose
2 Organization

2.1 Management
2.2 IC Member Agencies
2.3 Legislative Oversight

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.

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.

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).

IC Member Agencies

The Intelligence Community currently consists of fifteen agencies and offices throughout several departments of the executive branch:

United States Department of Defense;

The purpose of the Department of Defense is military operations, and therefore the entire Department is not part of the Intelligence Community. However, the following DoD agencies are:

Defense Intelligence Agency;
U.S. Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance;
U.S. Army Military Intelligence;
U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Department;
U.S. Navy Intelligence;
National Security Agency;
National Reconnaissance Office; and
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
United States Department of Justice IC members:
- Federal Bureau of Investigation National Security Division
United States Department of Homeland Security IC members:
- Department of Homeland Security Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate;
- U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence
United States Department of Energy IC members:
- Department of Energy Office of Intelligence
United States Department of State IC members:
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research
United States Department of the Treasury IC members:
- Office of Intelligence Support

Legislative Oversight

The Intelligence Community is overseen by the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.