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handle is hein.crs/crsmthaaapn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21945 September 24, 2004 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The U.S. Intelligence Budget: A Basic Overview Stephen Daggett Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary The 9/11 Commission recommended that a new National Intelligence Director (NID) should have control over personnel and budgets of all agencies that collect and analyze national foreign intelligence in order to foster more cooperation. This CRS report describes the intelligence budget and gives rough estimates of amounts for major components of the budget based on unclassified sources. It also reviews current procedures for formulating and executing the budget. And it highlights how proposed legislation addresses the issue. For a more extensive description of the Defense Department agencies whose budgets are at issue and a discussion of pros and cons of giving greater authority over them to a National Intelligence Director, see CRS Report RL32515, Intelligence Community Reorganization: Potential Effects on DOD Intelligence Agencies, by Richard Best. This report will be updated as events warrant. The Commission's recommendation would affect an estimated one-half to two-thirds of the intelligence budget, the portion devoted to the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP). The other parts of the intelligence budget finance intelligence activities of the Department of Defense that support tactical military operations, though the distinction between tactical and national intelligence is often blurry. A major issue in Congress is how greater centralized authority over the NFIP budget would affect operations of four large Defense Department agencies funded in large part from NFIP: the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency, the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. These agencies provide intelligence that supports both national decision-making and military operations. The Three Major Components of the Intelligence Budget Since 1995, the U.S. intelligence budget has been divided into three elements: * The National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP), which, in principle, funds all foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress

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