Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board absorbs the Intelligence Oversight

Board. President Bush establishes the National Drug Intelligence Center

(NDIC) within the Department of Justice. 3 February:Senate votes to

confirm James Woolsey as DCI.

1995 Department of Defense (DOD) establishes a new budget cate-

gory, the Joint Military Intelligence Program (JMIP). 17 April:Presi-

dent William J. Clinton signs Executive Order 12958 overhauling gov-

ernment secrecy rules. 12 June:DCI establishes National Intelligence

Collection Board (NICB).

1996 1 October: Congress establishes the National Imagery and

Mapping Agency (NIMA). 19 December:KH 11, first U.S. digital

satellite, deployed.

1997 19 May:President Clinton names George J. Tenet DCI. Fall:

Third version of LACROSSE radar imaging satellite launched.

1998 DCI Tenet reveals U.S. intelligence budget. 11 May:India tests

nuclear weapons.

1999 DCI Tenet reverses himself and reclassifies U.S. intelligence

budget. February:CIA establishes In-Q-Tel. 1 October:Clinton ad-

ministration abolishes United States Information Agency.

2001 1 April:U.S. Navy spy plane collides with Chinese fighter and

makes emergency landing on Chinese soil. May:National Counterin-

telligence Executive (NCIX) comes into being to protect from foreign

industrial espionage. 6 June:DCI Tenet mission to the Middle East. 11

September:Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center towers in New

York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. 8 October:Governor

Tom Ridge is sworn in as director of Office of Homeland Security. 25

October:Congress enacts the USA PATRIOTAct.

2002 4 February:Predator reconnaissance drone attacks convoy of

terrorists in Afghanistan. 14 February:Leaders of congressional intel-

ligence committees announce joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks of

11 September 2001. 19 March:President George W. Bush establishes

President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (PHSAC). 23 March:

Arabic-language Radio Sawa authorized. 14 June:House-Senate panel

opens inquiry into 9/11 intelligence failure. 3 November:CIAPredator

drone kills al Qaeda operatives in Yemen. 19 November:U.S. Senate

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