The Central Intelligence Agency needs to liaise with the United States Armed Forces, and a range of organizational structures have been used since the formation of the CIA to facilitate this liaison.
National Intelligence Support Team
A NIST normally is composed of personnel from DIA, NSA, NIMA, and the CIA who are deployed upon request by the military commander to facilitate the flow of timely all-source intelligence between a Joint Task Force (JTF) and Washington, DC, during crises or contingency operations.[1]
Bureaucratic structure
Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Military Affairs (ADDO/MA)
This position 'faded off the org chart' after the creation of the ADCI/MS c. 1995[2]
Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support (ADCI/MS)
or Associate Director of Military Support[3]
or Assistant Director for Military Support
[4]
and finally, Associate Director for Military Affairs
This position was created by CIA Director John Deutch in 1995 [5] He called it the 'Associate Director for Military Affairs' in a report in 1996,[6] but that name was not used until the late 1st decade of the 21st century in official documents, like org charts, and the 110th congress DoD appropriations bill says that Title IX Subtitle D will undergo changes "necessitated by the redesignation of the CIA's Assistant Director for Military Support as the Associate Director for Military Affairs."[7]
Office of Military Affairs
- 1992 - Created by CIA after problems during the Gulf War[8]
- 1995/1996 - Moved out of the Directorate of Operations by ADCI/MS Dennis C. Blair, to be directly under his office, which reported directly to the Director[9]
OMA is staffed by CIA and military personnel. As the agency's single POC for military support, OMA negotiates, coordinates, manages, and monitors all aspects of agency support for military operations. This support is a continuous process that can be enhanced or modified to respond to a crisis or developing operation. Interaction between OMA and the DCI representatives to the OSD, the Joint Staff, and the combatant commands facilitates the provision of national-level intelligence in support of joint operations, operation planning, and exercises.[10]
List of associate directors for military affairs
- 1995-1996 Vice Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN [11]
- 1996-1997 Lieutenant General John A. Gordon, USAF [12]
- 2000-2003 Lieutenant General John H. Campbell, USAF [13]
- 2004-2005 Vice Admiral Albert Calland III, USN [14]
- 2006-2008 Major General John T. Brennan, USAF [15]
- 2008-2010 Lieutenant General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF [16]
- 2010-2013 Lieutenant General Kurt A. Cichowski, USAF [17]
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Service branch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| - |  |
Lieutenant General Raymond A. Thomas III |
2013 | 2014 | 1 year, 0 days |  United States Army |
| - |  |
Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. |
January 9, 2015 | October 4, 2016 | 1 year, 269 days | United States Army |
| - |  |
Vice Admiral P. Gardner Howe III |
October 4, 2016 | November 8, 2019 | 3 years, 35 days |  United States Navy |
| - |  |
Vice Admiral Colin J. Kilrain |
November 8, 2019 | October 20, 2021 | 1 year, 346 days | United States Navy |
| - |  |
Lieutenant General John D. Caine |
November 3, 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 55 days |  United States Air Force |
Notes
- ↑ National Intelligence Support Teams, cia.gov
- ↑ Garthoff, Ch 13 footnote 4
- ↑ The New Team - Dennis C. Blair, New York Times, 2009 May 5
- ↑ "P.L. 110-417, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ↑ Garthoff, Chapter 13, and 1997 factbook on intelligence, CIA
- ↑ See Deutch, 1996
- ↑ See Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency, section on organizational charts. See also the 110th congress senate bill S.3001 Archived 2008-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ CIA Support.. 1997
- ↑ Garthoff, Chapter 13, footnote 4
- ↑ Joint and National Support to Military Operations, 2004, pg 165 of pdf
- ↑ Garthoff, ch 13. and see Feinstein's Nomination (~2 years)
- ↑ President Nominates Blair, Gordon to DoD Posts, American Forces Press Service, 1996 May 2
- ↑ "Release".
- ↑ "Release".
- ↑ See Message from the director.. 2008 7 10, calling Brennan the ADMA, and then Photochart, late 2008, still calling him the ADCI/MS
- ↑ Message from the director.. 2008 7 10
- ↑ "Message from the Director: Associate Director for Military Affairs — Central Intelligence Agency". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
References
- Mike Hayden, Director CIA (2008-07-10). "Message from the Director: Associate Director for Military Affairs". Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- John Deutch, Director CIA (1996). "The Intelligence Community". Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- Douglas F. Garthoff. "Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community 1946–2005". Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA. Archived from the original on February 24, 2014. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- CIA (16 June 1997). "CIA Support to the US Military During the Persian Gulf War". Archived from the original on June 13, 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- June Lee, Editorial Associate (August 2008). "Photochart of USAF Leadership, An Air Force Magazine Directory" (PDF). Air Force Magazine. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- Joint Chiefs of Staff (2004-10-07). "Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military Operations" (PDF). defense technical information center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2009-05-14.