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areas of concern. The NIC now has six regional and six issue NIOs who

commission and oversee the drafting, production, and dissemination of

NIEs under the authority of the director of national intelligence(DNI).

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY (NID).The NID was the Cen-

tral Intelligence Agency’s(CIA’s) daily intelligence report to senior-

and mid-level government officials from the mid-1960s until the mid-

1990s. See also SENIOR EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEF.

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIGEST.The National Intelligence

Digest was the Central Intelligence Agency’s(CIA’s) daily report to

senior- and mid-level government officials during the 1950s and

1960s. See alsoNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY; SENIOR

EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEF.

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE (NIE). National intelli-

gence estimates are forward-looking official judgments of the intel-

ligence community (IC) on a specific issue, country, or region that

address the consequences of various policy options. The National

Intelligence Council (NIC) has the responsibility to commission

and produce NIEs. The NIC’s national intelligence officers (NIOs)

either draft and produce the NIEs themselves or commission them

from analysts in the intelligence community. Once drafted, NIOs take

charge of coordinatingthe estimate among all the relevant IC agen-

cies, so that the estimate results in community, rather than specific

agency, judgments. NIOs attempt to arrive at a consensus, but dis-

senting views find their way either into the text or into footnotes. The

director of national intelligence (DNI) signs the coordinated and

finished NIE after approval by the President’s Foreign Intelligence

Advisory Board (PFIAB).

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (NIO). NIOs are senior of-

ficials of the intelligence community (IC), academia, or business who

are chosen for their expertise in substantive areas of importance to U.S.

intelligence Now appointed by the director of national intelligence

(DNI), NIOs comprise the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which

is responsible for the production of national intelligence estimates

(NIEs). See alsoCOLBY, WILLIAM.

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