United States Intelligence Community

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The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a group of U.S. federal government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations that conduct intelligence activities to support the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States. The group includes intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. The IC is overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which is led by the director of national intelligence (DNI), who reports directly to the president of the United States. The IC was established by Executive Order 12333 ("United States Intelligence Activities"), signed on December 4, 1981, by President Ronald Reagan. The statutory definition of the IC, including its roster of agencies, was codified as the Intelligence Organization Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102–496, H.R. 5095, 106 Stat. 3188). In 2010, The Washington Post reported that 1,271 government organizations...

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