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A 5 page paper describing the roles of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US and how they affect formation of US foreign policy. The DIA and NSA fill complementary roles in America’s intelligence community. NSA oversees encryption activity, analyzes others’ intelligence activities and develops new technological applications, while DIA actively collects, analyzes and disseminates intelligence for the Defense department and Congress. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsecNSA-DIA.rtf
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The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) fill complementary roles in Americas intelligence community. Each influences the formulation of U.S. foreign policy and support U.S.
combat operations. Defense Intelligence Agency The mission of the DIA is to "Provide timely, objective, and cogent military intelligence to warfighters, defense planners,
and defense and national security policymakers" (DIA, 2004). DIA is a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency and "provides military-and military-related intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and planners
to support military operations, planning, and weapons system acquisition" (DIA, 2004). Headquartered at the Pentagon, the DIA maintains several permanent locations in the Washington, D.C. area and at the
Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) in Huntsville, Alabama. It maintains many locations throughout the world as needed and as dictated by current conditions in any geographical area.
These more transient locations can be "as U.S. embassies, combatant commands, intelligence production centers" (DIA, 2004) and other similar locations, where "DIA personnel serve as defense attaches, liaison officers, analysts,
administrative staff, and logistics personnel" (DIA, 2004). The primary role of the DIA director is to provide information and intelligence analysis to "the
Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and serves as an advisor on military intelligence issues" (DIA, 2004) as well as providing support in high-level intelligence
coordination. The origin of the information in which the DIA deals consists of reports from field sites worldwide and the operation of targeted services operated by the DIA.
DIA directly operates the Defense Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Service and "coordinates and facilitates measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) activities" (DIA, 2004). It also "manages and plans collection from specialized
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