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An IC
member is a federal government agency, service, bureau, or
other organization within the executive branch that plays
a role in the business of national intelligence. The Intelligence
Community comprises many such organizations, most within
the Department of Defense, which receives about 85 percent
of the intelligence budget. Others include the Central Intelligence
Agency and portions of other executive branch organizations.
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The DoD IC members
are:
Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) - provides timely and objective military intelligence to
warfighters, policymakers, and force planners.
National
Security Agency (NSA) - collects and processes foreign signals intelligence
information for our Nation's leaders and warfighters, and protects critical US
information security systems from compromise.
National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - coordinates collection and analysis
of information from airplane and satellite reconnaissance by the
military services and the CIA.
National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) provides timely, relevant,
and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security.
Army, Navy,
Air Force, and Marine Corps Intelligence Agencies each collects
and processes intelligence relevant to their particular Service needs.
The Non-DoD
IC members are:
Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) - provides accurate, comprehensive, and timely
foreign intelligence on national security topics to national policy
and decision makers.
Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) - prevents terrorist attacks within the United States,
reduces America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimizes the damage and
recovers from attacks that do occur.
State Department
deals with information affecting US foreign policy.
Energy Department
performs analyses of foreign nuclear weapons, nuclear non-proliferation, and energy
security-related intelligence issues in support of US national security policies,
programs, and objectives.
Treasury
Department collects and processes information that may affect
US fiscal and monetary policy.
Federal Bureau
of Investigation deals with counterespionage and data about
international criminal cases.
United States
Coast Guard deals with information related to US maritime
borders and Homeland Security.
All the responsibilities of the CIA,
DIA, NSA, NRO, and NIMA are concerned with intelligence. Therefore each of these
organizations in its entirety is considered to be a member of the Intelligence
Community.
The other
organizations are concerned primarily with missions and business
other than intelligence, but do have intelligence responsibilities.
In these cases, only the part of the organization with the intelligence
responsibility is considered to be a part of the Community. In the
case of the US Navy, for instance, only their Office of Naval Intelligence
is an IC member. The rest of the Navy supports the DoD in missions
other than intelligence.
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