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Subject: The NSC what's that
TriggaFingaz    3/23/2005 2:49:16 PM
What is the National Security Council supposed to be? Is it the President's personal band of advisors? The only clue I have is that in Alias, it is like an intel service that's rival and higher up to the CIA.
 
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Texastillidie    RE:The NSC what's that   4/15/2005 3:27:55 AM
The National Security Council is chaired by the President. Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military advisor to the Council, and the Director of Central Intelligence is the intelligence advisor. The Chief of Staff to the President, Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy are invited to attend any NSC meeting. The Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget are invited to attend meetings pertaining to their responsibilities. The heads of other executive departments and agencies, as well as other senior officials, are invited to attend meetings of the NSC when appropriate. The National Security Council is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies. The Council also serves as the President's principal arm for coordinating these policies among various government agencies.
 
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Texastillidie    RE:The NSC what's that   4/22/2005 11:09:03 AM
By the way, if you have ever seen the TV series, "West Wing", that group of military and intelligence advisors in the situation room is the NSC.
 
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TriggaFingaz    DIA   5/10/2005 5:12:32 PM
OK, got that on the NSC. What's the difference between the CIA and DIA's work? Both are intel agencies. However, the DIA is much more obscure. I suppose they handle national level intel right, becoz I have never heard of Army intel officers in the S-2 or G-2 sections of field units refer to themselves as DIA members.
 
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displacedjim    RE:DIA   5/10/2005 5:58:11 PM
Here is some information regarding DIA: This is a very detailed link regarding DIA's activities: link Here is a basic overview of DIA's mission and its history: link DIA?s Contribution to Intelligence Established in 1961, and in 1986 designated a combat support agency, DIA?s mission is to provide timely and objective military intelligence to warfighters, policymakers, and force planners. The Director of the Agency is the primary adviser to the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military intelligence matters. Under the auspices of the Military Intelligence Board, DIA unites the Defense Intelligence Community on major issues dealing with support to deployed forces, assessments, policy, and resources. In addition, to assist weapon systems planners and the Defense acquisition community, DIA plays a key role in providing intelligence on foreign weapon systems. During the period following World War II until the Agency's establishment, the three Military Departments separately collected, produced, and disseminated intelligence for their individual use. The system proved duplicative, costly, and ineffective as each Service provided their estimates to the Secretary of Defense, the Unified and Specified (U&S) Commands, or other governmental agencies. The Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 sought to correct these shortcomings by assigning responsibility for U&S Command intelligence support to the J-2 of the JCS. However, DoD intelligence responsibilities remained unclear, coordination poor, and products lacked dependability and national focus. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, therefore, appointed the Joint Study Group in 1960 to determine better ways of effectively organizing the nation's military intelligence activities. Acting on the recommendations of the Joint Study Group, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in February 1961 advised the JCS of his decision to establish a Defense Intelligence Agency and tasked them with developing a concept plan that would extensively integrate the military intelligence efforts of all DoD elements. The JCS completed this assignment by July, and published DoD Directive 5105.21, "Defense Intelligence Agency" on 1 August, effective 1 October 1961. According to the plan for the new Agency, DIA reported to the Secretary of Defense through the JCS. It was a union--not a confederation of Defense intelligence and counterintelligence activities, and it did not add administrative layering within the Defense intelligence community. The Agency's mission was the continuous task of collecting, processing, evaluating, analyzing, integrating, producing, and disseminating military intelligence for the DoD. Other objectives included more efficiently allocating scarce intelligence resources, more effectively managing all DoD intelligence activities, and eliminating redundancies in facilities, organizations, and tasks. During the summer of 1961, as Cold War tensions flared over the Berlin Wall, Air Force Lieutenant General Joseph F. Carroll, soon to become DIA's first director, planned and organized this new agency. It began operations with a handful of employees in borrowed office space on 1 October 1961. Following DIA's establishment, the Services transferred intelligence functions and resources to it on a time-phased basis to avoid rapidly degrading the overall effectiveness of defense intelligence. Specifically, DoD assigned DIA the mission of collecting, processing, evaluating, analyzing, integrating, producing, and disseminating military intelligence for the Department. A year after its formation, the Agency faced its first major intelligence test during the superpower confrontation that developed after Soviet missiles were discovered at bases in Cuba. Yet, even in the midst of this crisis, Agency organizational efforts continued. In late 1962, DIA established the Defense Intelligence School, and on 1 January 1963, it activated a new Production Center. Several Service elements were merged to form this production facility, which occupied the "A" and "B" Building at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia. The Agency also added an Automated Data Processing (ADP) Center on 19 February, a Dissemination Center on 31 March, and a Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate on 30 April 1963. DIA assumed the staff support functions of the J-2, Joint Staff, on 1 July 1963. Two years later, on 1 July 1965, DIA accepted responsibility for the Defense Attache System--the last function the Services transferred to DIA. During these early years of DIA's existence, Agency attempts to establish itself as DoD's central military intelligence organization met with continuing Service opposition. At the same time, the Vietnam War severely tested the fledgling Agency's ability to produce accurate, timely intelligence. In particular, the war increased defense intelligence's involvement in efforts to account for American service members missing or captured in Southeast Asia. DIA analysts focused during the 1960's on: China's detonation of an atomic bomb and the launching of its cultural revolution; increasing unrest among African nations; and, fighting in Malaysia, Cyprus, and Kashmir. In the late 1960's, crises that tested intelligence responsiveness included: the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel; continuing troubles in Africa, particularly Nigeria; North Korea's seizure of the PUEBLO; and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Whether managing the deployment of a multi-agency National Intelligence Support Team, which provides tailored intelligence support to the military commander during crises, or developing innovative concepts toward a virtual collaborative environment for intelligence analysis such as the Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture, DIA is "Committed to Excellence in Defense of the Nation."
 
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TriggaFingaz    Great   5/11/2005 4:40:14 PM
Thanks for the links.
 
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Carl S    RE:Great   10/30/2005 9:08:00 AM
Previous to the establishment of the NSC the President & the Secretarys of State, Army, and Navy met regularly for the same purpose. These regular meetings begain shortly after the Spanish American war. They were intended to keep the policys of the military departments better aligned with the genral political objective. Something that was done on a much more informal basis during the 19th Century. The formal establishment of the NSC included a small clerical staff to keep track of the documents needed by the NSC, and fetch information. Truman and Eisenhower kept the NSC within its original function. Sometime during the 1960s the clerical staff within the White House begain to grow and its intellegence gathering function seems to have expanded. By the 1980s you had people like LtCol North using the NSC support staff role as cover for activitys outside preparing memorandum for meetings.
 
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