Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

PRESIDENTIAL FINDING.SeeFINDING.

PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW DIRECTIVE (PRD). For President

William J. Clinton, presidential review directives (PRDs) were the

equivalent of the nation security study memoranda of the Ronald

Reaganadministration and the national security reviews (NSRs) of

the George H. W. Bushadministration.

PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW MEMORANDA (PRM).PRMs were

the presidential national security studies during the administration of

President Jimmy Carter.

PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT STAFF.The Presidential Support Staff

replaced the President’s Daily Brief (PDB)Staff in 1994 as the unit

within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that prepared and de-

livered the president’s daily brief and provided briefings to a presi-

dentially determined list of senior government officials on the con-

tents of the PDB.

PRESIDENT’S ANALYTIC SUPPORT STAFF.The President’s An-

alytic Support Staff replaced the Presidential Support Staffafter the

terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. This Central Intelligence

Agency (CIA) unit continues to prepare and deliver the president’s

daily brief (PDB) and to provide briefings to a presidentially deter-

mined list of senior government officials on the contents of the PDB.

PRESIDENT’S BOARD OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN IN-

TELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.SeePRESIDENT’S FOREIGN IN-

TELLIGENCE ADVISORYBOARD; UNITED STATES INTELLI-

GENCE BOARD.

PRESIDENT’S DAILY BRIEF (PDB).Acurrent intelligencepubli-

cation, the PDB is a loose-leaf notebook that serves as a kind of brief-

ing book containing about a dozen items on developments around the

world and on broad trends abroad. Initiated under this name in 1964,

the PDB is published six days a week—except on Sundays—is

highly classified, and has a very small distribution, generally deter-

mined by the president. See alsoSENIOR EXECUTIVE INTELLI-

GENCE BRIEF.

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