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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council (NSC) are closely related as both were formally created by the National Security Act of 1947 [1], with the NSC issuing directives authorizing the CIA's operational and analytical functions [2][3] and coordinating intelligence activities involving the CIA [4][5].
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The Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community-An Historical ... govinfo.gov 9 facts
accountAllen Dulles, William Jackson, and Matthias Correa, three New York lawyers with experience in intelligence, submitted a highly critical report on the CIA to the National Security Council in January 1949.
claimThe Second Hoover Commission identified the NSC, CIA, NSA, FBI, Department of State, Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Atomic Energy Commission as members of the U.S. intelligence community in 1955.
accountIn January 1948, the National Security Council, under Executive Secretary Sidney Souers, asked three private citizens—Allen Dulles, William Jackson, and Matthias Correa—to examine the CIA's structure, administration, activities, and interagency relations.
claimThe Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to perform services of common concern to other intelligence agencies and other intelligence-related functions as directed by the National Security Council.
referenceThe National Security Council accepted the basic findings of the 1949 Dulles-Jackson-Correa report, which concluded that the CIA was not coordinating intelligence activities in the government, correlation and evaluation functions were not well organized, other members of the Intelligence Community were not fully included in the estimates process, and the DCI lacked sufficient day-to-day contact with the work of the CIA.
claimThe National Security Council (NSC) was proposed to coordinate civilian and military national security policy for the President, while the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was proposed to coordinate national security intelligence.
referenceA study commissioned by Navy Secretary James Forrestal and chaired by private businessman Ferdinand Eberstadt recommended coordinating intelligence through the establishment of a National Security Council (NSC) and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
accountThe U.S. government considered initiating psychological warfare operations overseas to counter Soviet expansionism, but the National Security Council initially preferred that the State Department, rather than the CIA, be responsible for them.
claimThe National Security Council issued directives in 1947 and 1948 that provided specific authority for the Central Intelligence Agency's operational and analytical functions.
History of the Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
quoteDoug MacEachin, the Central Intelligence Agency's Chief of Soviet analysis, stated that even if the agency had informed the President, the National Security Council, and Congress about the Soviet troop cuts beforehand, the information would have been ignored.
claimThe National Security Act of 1947, which took effect on September 18, 1947, formally created the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
claimA postmortem analysis conducted by Admiral Crowe, a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, concluded that the National Security Council expected the Central Intelligence Agency to both make decisions and provide the intelligence upon which those decisions were based.