What is the Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence?
Q: What is the Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence?
A: The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence was established by U.S. President Harry Truman on January 23 1946 to coordinate intelligence activities among and between the various United States intelligence agencies, also called the American Intelligence Community.
Q: Who occupied the position of the first DCI?
A: Admiral Sidney Souers occupied the position of the first DCI.
Q: What was the de facto role of the DCI?
A: Until April 2005, the DCI also served as de facto Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and was often referred to colloquially as the "CIA Director."
Q: Why was the Intelligence Community re-organized?
A: After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent investigation by the 9/11 Commission, a movement grew to re-organize the Intelligence Community.
Q: What was the outcome of the movement to re-organize the Intelligence Community?
A: That movement prompted the creation, on April 21, 2005, of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), in whose purview was the job portfolio that had been performed previously by the Director of Central Intelligence.
Q: What happened to the position of the DCI after the creation of the DNI?
A: After the creation of the DNI, the DCI position then ceased to exist.
Q: How long did the DCI position exist?
A: The DCI position existed until April 2005, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence took over its job portfolio, and the DCI position ceased to exist.
