Directorate of Intelligence organization
also: analytical component of CIA, Cuban DGI, DDI, D.I., DI, Directorate, DO, Intelligence Directorate
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Claims (42)
National Photographic Interpretation Center member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The Directorate's principal units include... a National Photographic Interpretation Center (run in cooperation with the Defense Department for analyzing photographs taken from satellites and high altitude spy planes)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.268
Directorate of Intelligence sold_to
Directorate for Science and Technology documented
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“The new component included the Office of Scientific Intelligence and the office of ELINT (electronic intercepts) from DDI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.126
Directorate of Intelligence split_off_from
CIA documented
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“The DDO and the DDI evolved out of separate independent organizations serving different policy needs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.132
Directorate of Intelligence member_of
CIA documented
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“The project files for Chile gave no indication of consultation with the Intelligence Directorate from 1964 to 1973…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.168
Directorate of Intelligence member_of
CIA documented
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“The Committee's examination of the production of finished intelligence focused on the CIA and within it the Directorate of Intelligence (DDI)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.265
CIA headed
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“Within the CIA (which is responsible for the production of "national intelligence") both the Intelligence Directorate and the Directorate of Science and Technology (DDS&T) produce finished intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of National Estimates documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were Production of finished intelligence by the Offices of National Estimates (ONE)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Current Intelligence documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Current Intelligence (OCT)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Research and Reports documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Research and Reports (ORR)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Scientific Intelligence documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Scientific Intelligence (OSI)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Operations documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Collection of essentially overt information by the Divisions of the Office of Operations (00)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Foreign Broadcast Information Service documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Foreign Broadcast Information (FBID)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Foreign Documents Division documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Foreign Documents (FDD)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Contacts Division documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Contacts (CD)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Collection and Dissemination documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Dissemination storage and retrieval of unevaluated intelligence information and basic reference documentation by the Office of Collection and Disseminati…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Office of Intelligence Coordination documented
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“Specifically the intelligence activities which the DDI originally administered were... Coordination of intelligence collection by the Office of Intelligence Coordination (OIC)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.267
Directorate of Intelligence founded
Office of Political Research documented
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“Accordingly an Office of Political Research (OPR) was established in 1974 It incorporated the Special Research Staff some people from OCI and the then disbanding Office of National Estimates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Directorate of Intelligence acquired
Office of Operations documented
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“At its founding in 1952 the Intelligence Directorate inherited the Officeof Operations (00) from the then Directorate of Plans.today's Operations Directorate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
CIA Directorate of Plans sold_to
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“At its founding in 1952 the Intelligence Directorate inherited the Officeof Operations (00) from the then Directorate of Plans.today's Operations Directorate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Directorate of Intelligence acquired
Contact Division documented
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“This arrangement lasted for only one year however as the 00 and its Contact Division (CD) was moved to the Intelligence Directorate in 1952…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.270
Foreign Broadcast Information Service member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“until its transfer to the Intelligence Directorate in 1952…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.271
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
National Security Council documented
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“Most National Security Council (NSC) meetings begin with an assessment of the current situation given by the DCI and prepared by DDI analysts.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.273
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks documented
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“A SALT support staff has been assembled in CIA to coordinate SALT-related activities of production offices in the DDI and DDS&T.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.274
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
Law of the Sea Conference documented
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“Finally, the DDI provided assessments to the policy groups who prepared U.S positions for the Law of the Sea Conference in 1975...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.274
Office of Political Research subsidiary_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The OPR created only in 1974 is treated by the DDI as an elite group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.277
United States Intelligence Board headed
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“Prior to the President's February 1976 reorganization of the intelligence community the USIB approved all National Intelligence Estimates.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.279
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
U.S. State Department documented
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“An analyst from the DDI may meet with his opposite numbers in State or DIA prior to publishing an article in their mutual field.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.279
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
Defense Intelligence Agency documented
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“An analyst from the DDI may meet with his opposite numbers in State or DIA prior to publishing an article in their mutual field.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.279
Directorate of Intelligence headed
Foreign Broadcast Information Service documented
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“The Foreign Broadcast Information Service run by the Intelligence Directorate monitors foreign media and open source material and publishes daily surveys byarea…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.281
Directorate of Intelligence Executive Staff worked_for
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The quarterly schedules are prepared by DDI's Executive Staff based on inputs received from…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.284
Directorate of Intelligence founded
Intelligence Checklist documented
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“In 1975 the DDI began publishing a daily Intelligence Checklist specifically tailored to what it perceived to be the intelligence needs of the Congress…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.285
Office of Strategic Influence member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“In 1955 there were 466 analysts in ORR 217 in OCT and 207 in OSI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
CIA headed
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“Outside of the Office of the Director the Agency is organized into four functional directorates Operations Management and Services Science and Technology and Intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.267
Foreign Broadcast Information Service member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The Directorate's principal units include... a Foreign Broadcast Information Service (a world-wide radio television monitoring system)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.268
Directorate of Intelligence subsidiary_of
CIA documented
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“Three Directorates had been established In addition to the DDP and the DDI Smith created the Deputy Directorate for Administration (DDA)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.46
Directorate of Intelligence member_of
CIA documented
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“The DDP's relative autonomy in the Agency also affected the mission and functions of the other two Directorates…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.54
Office of National Estimates member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“The problem was magnified throughout the DDI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Office of Research and Reports member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“In 1955 there were 466 analysts in ORR 217 in OCT and 207 in OSI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Office of Current Intelligence member_of
Directorate of Intelligence documented
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“In 1955 there were 466 analysts in ORR 217 in OCT and 207 in OSI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.63
Robert Amory Jr. headed
Directorate of Intelligence book_quoted
“as Fidel Castro. Some secret warriors saw that as a serious security breach, but he didn't care. He had a point to make. Of course, one level of Amory could not break secrecy. As chief of the Directorate of Intelligence, he led a CIA unit w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:10
Ray Cline headed
Directorate of Intelligence host_asserted
“It was a good combination. This is all under the watch of Alan Dulles, of course. Right. It was a good combination, and the office found its soul during those years. The thing about it was, if anything happened, people always showed up. The…”
▶ The Shadow State 59 Spooks & Infectious Disease @ 54:30
CIA covered_up
Directorate of Intelligence book_quoted
“I'm sorry, I just have to laugh. We don't actually want anybody getting intelligence because we're just creating it. We're making it up to justify what we're doing. We don't need the Directorate of Intelligence involved in an intelligence o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 43:27
Mentions (11)
▶ 42:55
So Castro knows what's going on. This amounted to very thin supplies. And it was at some point, there was probably rebels wishing the CIA had in fact dropped them the rice and beans, not the CIA agent. Meanwhile, the analytical component of…
▶ 43:27
I'm sorry, I just have to laugh. We don't actually want anybody getting intelligence because we're just creating it. We're making it up to justify what we're doing. We don't need the Directorate of Intelligence involved in an intelligence o…
▶ 43:56
that might even suggest what was impending for Cuba. So again, they may know over here in this office that Castro's on to all of them, but they're insulated by the covert action people because they don't want to hear that because then they …
▶ 53:07
All of this had taken place. Dulles knows unequivocally the entire operation is compromised. And again, the place where the intelligence analyst and the intelligence operators, the covert side, meet is at the Cabell and Dulles level. So it …
▶ 1:10
as Fidel Castro. Some secret warriors saw that as a serious security breach, but he didn't care. He had a point to make. Of course, one level of Amory could not break secrecy. As chief of the Directorate of Intelligence, he led a CIA unit w…
▶ 2:09
Amory knew about all of this. The DI chief at that time held responsibility for the Photographic Interpretation Center. And what do we know about that from our U2 studies? We know that that's the area that processes all of the films from th…
▶ 4:41
but no one consulted him. Amory, far from alone in his views, represented the element at CIA that was skeptical about the Cuba project. Some doubted the internal resistance could cripple Castro. Others questioned the outcome, even if the CI…
▶ 5:14
Another DI unit was the Office of National Estimates, which produced the community's flagship reports, the National Intelligence Estimates. Without bringing it into the circle of knowledge on the plan, Dulles and Bissell asked O&E to assess…
▶ 21:21
burst into the public in 1972 with leaked ITT documents. Opposition from both Ray Warren and Nathaniel Davis forced Shackley to cancel a planned trip to Santiago. The Cuban DGI had a good station in Chile under Juan Maraditero Ibanez.…
▶ 3:28
That was just made up out of whole air. They have no idea whether that was true or not. Analysts in the Directorate for Intelligence told that the project could not achieve more than a disruptive effect. But Bob Gates, its chief from 82 to …
▶ 55:05
D.I. in early 1962, right after Dulles left, he wanted OCI to be under his control. And he booted Sheldon aside or pushed Sheldon aside, I should say. But Ting stayed on for several years as the agency's signals intelligence officer and als…