INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

Intelligence Community

Intelligence Community

The various departments and agencies that constitute the U.S. intelligence community (IC) cooperate to fulfill the goals of Executive Order 12333. Members of the IC are federal-government agencies, services, bureaus, and other organizations within the executive branch that play a role in the business of national intelligence. Some have responsibilities concerned solely with intelligence; others are concerned primarily with missions other than intelligence but do have intelligence responsibilities. In these cases, only that part of the organization with intelligence responsibilities is considered to be a part of the IC (Keegan, 2008).

Each branch of the U.S. military collects and ...