ABSTRACT
The intelligence provisions of the 1947 Act mandate a special role for the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and his agency in central coordination of the government's intelligence work. The United States Intelligence Board (USIB) was not merely an administrative device for coordinating government intelligence programs, with the limitations that function had experienced. In 1978 the USIB was renamed the National Foreign Intelligence Board in President Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 12036. In the 1960s the Board of National Estimates was removed from the internal jurisdiction of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Intelligence Directorate and began reporting directly to the DCI in his Community role. The complex structure of the National Security Council for coordinating major policy and planning is impressive in itself. Its direction and control extends to the intelligence activities of the government as well. As distinct from the DCI in his community role, the CIA has primary responsibility for clandestine collection of foreign intelligence and for counterintelligence operations abroad.
