Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

COMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EX-

PLOITATION (COMIREX).Established on 1 July 1967 as a sub-

committee of the National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB),

COMIREX replaced the Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance

(COMOR) to coordinate imagery collection requirements in the United

States government. The establishment of COMIREX reflected the in-

creasing use of imaging capabilities of overhead collection systems, in-

cluding satellites. COMIREX was designed to set priorities for the im-

agery needs of competing intelligence community (IC) agencies,

including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intel-

ligence Agency (DIA), and the military services. COMIREX was ab-

sorbed by the Central Imagery Office (CIO) in May 1992. See also

NATIONALIMAGERYAND MAPPING AGENCY.

COMMITTEE ON OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE (COMOR).

SeeCOMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EX-

PLOITATION.

COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE (COMINT). See SIG-

NALS INTELLIGENCE.

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT STAFF (CMS). Established in

1992 and headed by the executive director for intelligence community

affairs (EXDIR/ICA), CMS superceded the Intelligence Community

Staff (ICS) in providing assistance to the director of central intelli-

gence (DCI) in coordinating and managing the intelligence commu-

nity (IC). Specifically, CMS now supports the director of national

intelligence(DNI) as the focal point for IC management of the Na-

tional Foreign Intelligence Program(NFIP), program assessment

and evaluation, and the management of collection requirements.

COMPARTMENTATION.Compartmentation refers to the segrega-

tion of information into discrete categories, with access to such in-

formation restricted on the “need to know” basis. Compartmentation

of intelligence information usually occurs along lines corresponding

to specific intelligence collection disciplines, such as signals intelli-

gence (SIGINT) and human intelligence (HUMINT), with further

compartmentation within each discipline to reflect particular pro-

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