National Intelligence Resources Board

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The National Intelligence Resources Board (NIRB) was an institution of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded in May 1968 by the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms . A similar institution, the United States Intelligence Board (USIB), was founded in the early 1950s with regard to the CIA's participation in the intelligence community .

The motives for founding the NIRB were to make the work of the CIA more effective and to control the costs of the actions. The DCI John Alex McCone had already intended this task in 1963 with the establishment of the National Intelligence Program Evaluation Staff .

In 1968 Richard Helms had some discussions with the US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze about the tasks of the secret services in the context of the intelligence community . As a result of these discussions, the NIRB was established in May 1968. The NIRB consisted of the Deputy Director of the DIC (Deputy of DIC (DDIC)), the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the head of the intelligence department of the US State Department and the head of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US State Department.

The NIRB should review the effective coordination of foreign intelligence services within the remit and responsibility of the DCI. To this end, it should also be determined of what kind the requirements were required for these tasks. Ultimately, the effectiveness of the four main US intelligence agencies - the CIA, the NSA , the DIA and the National Reconnaissance Office - should be checked.

By 1970, the NIRB had eleven meetings and submitted seven reports. Although the NIRB could have exerted a great influence through its important members, only limited revisions of the programs and the working methods of the secret services were issued. For example, a reference to the NSA's analysis of the data collected and its analytical use had little effect.

Obviously discouraged that the work of the NIRB was not yielding expected results, Helms discontinued his efforts to increase the effectiveness of the intelligence programs. The NIRB was then merged with the Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee (IRAC).

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