Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY (NIA).Established by

presidential directive (PD) on 22 January 1946, the NIAprovided ex-

ecutive oversightof the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), headed

by the director of central intelligence (DCI). The NIA’s members

were the secretaries of state, war, navy, and the president’s military ad-

visor. An additional directive, dated 8 July 1946, gave the DCI the au-

thority to coordinate intelligence information without actually giving

him significant control over existing intelligence agencies or budgetary

powers. New intelligence arrangements created by the 1947 National

Security Actsuperceded the National Intelligence Authority.

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Actof 2004

also created a National Intelligence Authority and placed the newly

established director of national intelligence(DNI) as its leader. This

NIA included all the agencies of the intelligence community (IC)

except for the tactical intelligenceorganizations of the Department

of Defense(DOD).

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION BOARD (NICB).

Established on 12 June 1995 as part of the Community Management

Staff (CMS), the National Intelligence Collection Board, composed

of senior officials representing the intelligence collection disciplines

and the principal intelligence community (IC) production officers,

manages the overall intelligence collection requirements process, en-

sures coordinationamong the major collection disciplines, and eval-

uates performance in satisfying consumer needs for information. To

ensure responsiveness to the current and anticipated information

needs of intelligence consumers, the board acts as a forum for inte-

grating the efforts of the separate collection disciplines and issuing

guidance to collectors, as appropriate. The board is chaired by the ex-

ecutive director for intelligence community affairs (EXDIR/ICA) or

his designee and occasionally meets in subgroups and committees.

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL (NIC).The NIC is the suc-

cessor to the Office of National Estimates (ONE), which was estab-

lished in 1950 to produce national intelligence estimates (NIEs).

Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)William Colbydisbanded the

ONE in September 1973 and established the NIC system, comprised of

national intelligence officers (NIOs) with substantive expertise in their

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