Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

rity (DHS) professionals, EPIC has since expanded into a national drug intelligence center supporting U.S. law enforcement entit ...

EXECUTIVE ORDER (EO) 12036. Issued by President Jimmy Carteron 24 January 1978, Executive Order 12036 attempted to give greater ...

order, the PFIAB was to consist of no more than 14 members chosen from among trustworthy and distinguished citizens outside the ...

by exempting some types of information, such as that on interna- tional terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, from the prov ...

as such, is legally prohibited from engaging in foreign intelligence activities. However, its counterintelligenceunit is a forma ...

move that FBI Director Hoover vehemently opposed, the FBI lost its intelligence collection responsibilities in Latin America but ...

Intelligence Agency (CIA) for much of 1962. FBI Director J. Edgar Hooverbypassed CIAcounterintelligencechief James J. Angleton a ...

central intelligence (DCI), who must ultimately sign off on any such proposal. Once approved by all relevant parties, the presid ...

Roosevelt approved $25 million for China to purchase Tomahawk aircraft and signed a secret order in April 1941 allowing military ...

broad legislative authority over the CIA, the FBI, and other compo- nents of the federal intelligence community. President Ford ...

ment to set up procedures for allowing electronic monitoring, within the United States, of individuals for foreign intelligence ...

federal judges selected by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The court of review determines whether the application w ...

formation and allowing individuals to request access to government information about themselves or public issues. Under the term ...

FUSION CENTERS.Fusion centers are interdisciplinary and intera- gency units established to address specific intelligence issues. ...

tive culture. He therefore quickly established a multitude of intelligence community (IC) and CIAtask forces to improve performa ...

the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and related programs. It is managed by the assistant secretary of defense for command, con ...

raphy of little intelligence value. Only 34 balloons succeeded in ob- taining useful photographs. In addition to the low rate of ...

feeding the Western intelligence services false information. Reports also indicate that the Soviets used transmissions into the ...

GOSS, PORTER (1938– ).Porter Goss has been director of central intelligence (DCI) since 22 September 2004. President George W. B ...

Although the Soviet KGB broke up into its foreign and domestic component parts upon the dissolution of the Soviet Unionin 1991, ...