ABSTRACT
The service intelligence agencies respond, in an autonomous manner, to the requirements of their intelligence chiefs, the Unified and Specified Commanders, and to field or operating commanders. Accomplishing the myriad missions necessary to meet the demands placed on the military intelligence community by its consumers obviously demands a sizeable investment in organization, manpower and money. As the ultimate arbiter and decisionmaker on service and other departmental intelligence budgets, the Director of Defense Intelligence Agency has a great deal of influence over the intelligence processes and products of the organizations. Responsibilities for the three major intelligence disciplines-imagery intelligence, signals intelligence, and human intelligence-rest primarily with the Directorates of Intelligence Systems and Foreign Intelligence. Since the Marine Corps only become a service with co-equal status in the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1978, its intelligence tradition has largely been one of the naval intelligence tradition.
