Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

In addition, arms control efforts have focused on disarming vari-

ous regions of the globe—Antartica, for example—and space, such

as the Outer Space Treaty, from nuclear weapons. American intelli-

gence has had a vital role in these efforts of supporting American

arms control negotiators with intelligence information and monitor-

ing and verifying compliance with the resulting treaties. See also

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY; ARMS

CONTROLINTELLIGENCE STAFF.

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY (ACDA).Es-

tablished as an independent agency by the Arms Control and Disar-

mamant Act of 26 September 1961, ACDAwas the leading organi-

zational unit for formulating U.S. policy on arms control and

disarmament issues and for U.S. participation in international nego-

tiations over such issues. Executive Order 11044, dated 20 August

1962, also endowed ACDA’s director with the authority to coordinate

policy planning for diplomatic negotiations. As such, ACDA was

deeply involved in all major arms control agreements, such as the

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I and II. ACDAalso sup-

ported efforts to prevent missile and weapons proliferation by fully

participating in two of the National Security Council’s (NSC’s)in-

teragency working groups (IWGs), one on nonproliferation and ex-

port controls and the other on arms control.

Although not a formal member of the intelligence community

(IC), ACDA was an active member of various interagency intelli-

gence committees working on verification issues and to ensure that

U.S. policy initiatives were based on accurate intelligence informa-

tion. ACDAceased to be an independent agency on 1 April 1999 and

was integrated into the Department of State.

ARMS CONTROL INTELLIGENCE STAFF (ACIS).Formerly at-

tached to the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI),

ACIS, now a part of the Directorate of Intelligence(DI) in the Cen-

tral Intelligence Agency (CIA), supports all American arms control

negotiations and provides advice on verification and compliance is-

sues. Tasking for ACIS at one time came from the Intelligence Re-

sources Division of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

(ACDA), but now tasking primarily comes from the Department of

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