Chapter The Intelligence Community
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The Intelligence Community
The Director of the CIA reports to the newly established Director of National Intelligence, who leads the Intelligence Community, of which CIA is one component. The Intelligence Community refers in the aggregate to those Executive Branch agencies and organizations that conduct the variety of intelligence activities which make up the total U.S. national intelligence effort.* The Community includes the Central Intelligence Agency; the National Security Agency; the Defense Intelligence Agency; National Reconaissance Office; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State; Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force intelligence; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Department of the Treasury; and the Department of Energy.
Ÿ The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) amended Section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947, designating those "elements of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concerned with the analyses of foreign intelligence information." The President further defined those portions of DHS that are considered IC elements by amending Executive Order 12333, Sec 3.4 (f)(8) including within the IC only those elements of DHS that are supervised by the Under Secretary for Information Analysis (with the exception of those functions that involve no analysis of foreign intelligence information) The Department of Homeland Security includes the United States Coast Guard.
Ÿ The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act of 1947 by abolishing the post of Director of Central Intelligence and distributing his duties between the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The DNI took on several DCI Area components that performed certain services of common concern for the entire Intelligence Community, most notably the Community Management Staff and the National Intelligence Council.
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