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INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

World's Major Intelligence Agencies

International Intelligence Sharing Constructions

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The Intelligence Community (IC) is currently divided into roughly 15 different members, each striving to gather and analyze available intelligence information. Each entity has a goal to provide that intelligence which is directly relevant to its own field; OIS, the Department of Treasury's intelligence entity, seeks information relative to financial transactions which effect national security, while IN, the Department of Energy's intelligence entity, gathers information surrounding critical energy intelligence related to national security. All of these entities report primarily to their immediate Department heads, and in part to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Although the DNI position is a rather recent development, the change was made effective upon the passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Pursuant to that law, the DNI has several key responsibilities, to provide substantial budget initiation and oversight and act as the President's primary intelligence advisor. Although the Director does have his own staff and the authority to establish his own specialized intelligence centers, the primary intelligence gathering and analysis is done by the 15 participating IC members, each of which are encouraged to sustain and facilitate an environment for the sharing of intelligence by a Presidential appointed Program Manager.

Intelligence, of all kinds, is gathered, analyzed, and disseminated predominately by those relatively autonomous entities. Acting as the holistic and broad-stroke reviewer of that intelligence, there are a number of independent analysis bodies, such as the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), replacing TTIC in the former IC structure, and the National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC). Additionally, intelligence may be obtained by the National Security Counsel or the Joint Intelligence Community Council (JICC), which replaced the former National Intelligence council and is comprised of the DNI, Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and any other officer as appointed by the President, for further specialized review on matters of immediate concern. Intelligence is also shared between agencies, either by self-initiation or request. The result is a community of semi-autonomous intelligence gathering, analyzing, and disseminating entities which work for their own specific needs but fall under the collective authority of one cabinet-level secretary who ensures facilitation of intelligence both internally and externally.

Members of the IC
The Former IC

The Intelligence Community Primer
Appendix to WMD Commission Report