Defense Intelligence Agency
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| State level | Federal authority | ||
| Position of the authority | Military intelligence | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) |
 United States Department of Defense German Ministry of Defense |
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| Consist | since October 1, 1961 | ||
| Headquarters | DIA-HQ, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling , Washington, DC | ||
| Authority management |
Director of the DIA LTG Robert P. Ashley Deputy Director Suzanne L. White |
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| Employee | approx. 16,500 | ||
| Website | www.dia.mil | ||
The Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA , German Defense Intelligence Agency ) is a military intelligence service of the United States , the umbrella organization of the intelligence services of the four armed services Army , Navy , Air Force and Marine Corps serves.
assignment
- The DIA provides all military attachés and their staffs at embassies and consulates of the United States. Around half of all employees work at liaison offices abroad.
- Gathering, analyzing, and relaying intelligence from the intelligence services of the four armed forces for the US Department of Defense :
- Army Intelligence (AI), Army Intelligence Service
- Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA), United States Marine Corps intelligence agency
- Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), naval intelligence service
- Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (ISR), Air Force Intelligence Service
- The surveillance of weapons of mass destruction , terrorism and organized crime .
- The Defense Clandestine Service of DIA is the operational arm of the service. Its around 500 agents are active undercover and look after covert sources all over the world.
- The DIA is responsible for the coordination of all MASINT programs in the United States.
- All counter-espionage and security activities of the Ministry of Defense lie with the DIA.
organization
The DIA , established by Robert McNamara in 1961 through Directive 5105.21 , collects and analyzes the information obtained by the intelligence services of the armed forces and forwards the knowledge gained from this to the responsible decision-makers in the Pentagon and the US government as well as to the task forces. The Defense Attaché Service has been subordinate to the DIA since 1965 .
Its headquarters are at the intelligence evaluation center at the former Bolling Air Force Base (now part of the Anacostia-Bolling Joint Base) in Washington, DC There are also other locations and posts affiliated to the military attachés in the embassies of the United States.
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The DIA essentially consists of four main departments ( Directorates ):
- Directorate for Analysis
- Directorate for Operations
- Directorate for Science & Technology
- Directorate for Mission Services
and five evaluation centers ( Intelligence Centers ), each with a geographical focus, in one case a thematic focus:
- Americas Center
- Asia / Pacific Center
- Defense Combating Terrorism Center
- Europe / Eurasia Center
- Middle East / Africa Center
The National Intelligence University is also located on the DIA site , but it is planned to move to Bethesda , Maryland.
communication
Like all members of the United States Intelligence Community , the DIA is integrated into the Intelink network. DIA also operates its own networks for communication with international partners, for example Stoneghost for communication with Commonwealth countries.
history
Known to the public this secret was the worldwide publishing of wiretapped him radio communications between Soviet interceptors during the launch of a 747 Boeing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 on September 1, 1983. In 1993, the DIA was in Yugoslavia active.
Since 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has regulated the parliamentary control of the DIA by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) of the US Senate and the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in the House of Representatives as a result of investigations by the Church Committee .
In 2015, Judicial Watch fought for the publication of a DIA report on the civil war in Syria .
US intelligence budget 2013
According to a report by the Washington Post, the total budget of all intelligence services in the United States for 2013 was 52.6 billion US dollars. The five largest authorities whose budgets Swiss Post has divided into the four categories of maintenance , data collection , data processing and utilization and data analysis are listed below .
| Name of the authority / program | Budget administration and maintenance (Management and support) |
Budget data collection |
Budget data processing and recycling (Data processing and exploitation) |
Budget data analysis |
Total budget |
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Central Intelligence Agency | 1.8 | 11.5 | 0.387 | 1.1 | 14.787 |
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National Security Agency | 5.2 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 10.8 |
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National Reconnaissance Program | 1.8 | 6.0 | 2.5 | - | 10.3 |
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National Geospatial Intelligence Program | 2.0 | 0.537 | 1.4 | 0.973 | 4.91 |
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General Defense Intelligence Program | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.228 | 1.2 | 4,428 |
| total | 12.5 | 21,837 | 6.115 | 4,773 | 45.225 | |
Figures in billions of US dollars
Web links
- Official site of the DIA (English)
- Government website on the DIA (English)
- The National Intelligence University website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DIA: Leadership , accessed on March 22, 2015 (English)
- ^ A b Defense Intelligence Agency: About
- ↑ DIA: Locations , accessed on March 22, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Jim Hodges: Higher Intelligence: The National Intelligence University Transforms Education and Culture ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Trajectory Magazine, 03/2013. Accessed March 22, 2015
- ↑ Jan Goldman and Susan Maret (2016) Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security: Key Terms and Concepts ; Rowman & Littlefield; ISBN 978-1-4422-6017-7 (e-book), 978-1-4422-6016-0 (paperback), 978-1-4422-6015-3 (hardback) page 532.
- ↑ http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release -2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
- ^ The Black Budget. Covert action. Surveillance. Counterintelligence. The US "black budget" spans over a dozen agencies that make up the National Intelligence Program. The Washington Post, August 30, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
