Directorate of Operations (DO)

The Directorate of Operations (DO), headed by the Deputy Director for Operations (DUO), has primary responsibility for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence, including HUMINT. Domestically, the DDO is responsible for the overt collection of foreign intelligence volunteered by individuals and organizations in the United States, and in some cases, data on foreign activities collected by other US Government agencies. Since 1992, the DDO has been assisted by an Associate Deputy Director for Military Affairs (ADDO/MA), who facilitates Agency cooperation with the military. The DO is divided administratively into area divisions, as are the State Department and CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, with the addition of a domestic collection division, two topical centers, one tasking center, and one defector resettlement center. Several staffs deal with issues specific to the work of the DO.


Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T)

Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), headed by the Deputy Director for Science and Technology, provides support to CIA and the Intelligence Community (IC) in the collection, processing, and exploitation of intelligence from all sources - imagery, HUMINT, open source, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and other forms of intelligence data collected by clandestine technical means. The support includes research, development, acquisition, and operations of the technical capabilities and systems. For open source and imagery exploitation, the DS&T serves as a service of common concern for the IC through, respectively, its Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and National Photographic Interpretation Center. For HUMINT, the DS&T components provide a wide range of technical support, including agent communication. 

The National Photographic Interpretation Center is also managed within the DS&T. NPIC is a joint CIA/Defense Department center, and its product is disseminated to its parent agencies, which, in turn, incorporate it into all-source intelligence reports. NPIC also produces imagery interpretation reports, briefing boards, videotapes for national-level consumers, and provides support for the military. 


Directorate of Intelligence

CIA produces a wide variety of finished intelligence. Its substantive scope is worldwide. It covers functional as well as regional issues, and its products range from quick-reaction, informal oral briefings to complex, long-term research studies that may take months or years to complete. Virtually all of CIA's finished intelligence is designed to support national-level policy deliberations. 

The Directorate of Intelligence (DI), headed by the Deputy Director for Intelligence, produces the bulk of CIA's finished intelligence products and is the executive agent for meeting CIA's responsibility to produce national-level current intelligence. 

Since 1981, the Directorate's analysis of regional and country-specific topics has been performed in five regional offices. Each of these offices generates multi-disciplinary studies encompassing military, economic, political, and other factors and produces the full range of finished intelligence. These offices - structured largely to mirror the way their policy maker consumers are organized in the State Department, Defense Department, NSC Staff, and other departments - are:


Office of African and Latin American Analysis 
Office of East Asian Analysis 
Office of European Analysis 
Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis 
Office of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis

The Directorate also has four offices that are worldwide in responsibility but focus on particular issues or kinds of analysis: 
The Office of Resources, Trade and Technology (RTT) has the broadest responsibility, covering such translational issues as sanctions monitoring, economic negotiations support, foreign efforts to unfairly aid business, questionable foreign financial practices, international arms market trends, defense industry strategies, energy and resource analysis, geographic and demographic issues, and environmental trends and civil technology challenges-from both a technical and policy perspective. 

The Office of Scientific and Weapons Research (OSWR) produces assessments of foreign developments in science, technology, and weapons. Major issues currently addressed by OSWR include: the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear security and safety, technology surprise, and the proliferation of advanced conventional weaponry. 

The Office of Leadership Analysis (LDA) integrates the work of biographic, psychological, and medical specialists to provide comprehensive assessments of the major leaders, groups, and institutions of foreign countries that exercise formal or informal power.

The Office of Imagery Analysis (OIA) which, effective I October 1993, is managed and staffed on behalf of the Directorate by the National Photographic Interpretation Center - provides analyses on the full range of substantive intelligence topics worldwide and develops and applies methodologies used to maximize the utility of current and future imaging systems. 

Two offices in the Directorate provide support to Directorate analysis and to other agencies: 

The Office of Information Resources (OIR) provides all-source library and reference services within CIA and retrieves CIA documents for the IC. It supports Directorate of Intelligence information systems and is developing an electronic open-source delivery system with connectivity to the IC. OIR also develops methodologies to support quantitative research and analysis.

The Office of Current Production and Analytic Support (CPAS) publishes national-level current intelligence, fulfills the CIA's warning and alert functions via its Operations Center, coordinates foreign intelligence liaison activities, and supports CIA's finished intelligence production with cartographic, design, and editorial expertise.

In May 1992, the DCI's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) was established as the focal point for all IC activities related to nonproliferation. The NPC, structurally located in the Directorate of Intelligence, develops and updates strategic plans, provides assessments, manages operations, and enhances collection efforts in order to provide the policy maker with a coordinated view on nonproliferation issues for decision making.

Ed Foley is the current head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
