Timeline is incomplete, and the order within each year hasn't been verified
Year Month Government Act (EO,PLAW) WHO start/stop commisions impacting others
1947 National Security Act (Title 50)
1949 The First Hoover Commission (Task Force on National Security Organization) → Eberstadt Report
1949 Intelligence Survey Group (Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report) NSC
1950 Re-organization: create an intelligence evaluation board called the Board of National Estimates (BNE). CIA
1954 Doolittle Report (“fair play”) President Eisenhower
1955 Second Hoover Commission → Clark Task Force Report Congress
1955 NSC Directives, 5412/1 and 5412/2, were issued pertaining tocovert activities
1956 Title 10 overhaul Congress
1956 Bruce-Lovett Report
1956 President Eisenhower created thePresident’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (PBCFIA) toconduct independent evaluations of the U.S. intelligence program. PBCFIA becamethe President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) in 1961
In 1956 and 1962, Congress removed from Title 50 provisions relating to organization and functions of the services and DoDand placed these provisions with amendments in Title 10 of theU.S. Code (Wall, p. 98)
1961 The Taylor Commission
1961 PBCFIA becamethe President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) in 1961
1961 The Kirkpatrick Report
1968 National Intelligence Resources Board (NIRB) established DCI Helms
1971 The Schlesinger Report “unproductively duplicative”
1971 Presidential directive dated November 5, 1971.
Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee(IRAC) replaces NIRB
1972 Intelligence CommunityStaff (ICS) in 1972. Created by DCI Helms
1975 "Select Committee on Intelligence" formed by House
1975 Murphy Commission (Commission on the Organization of theGovernment for the Conduct of Foreign Policy),
1975 Rockefeller Commission (Executive Order 11828 on January 4, 1975, the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States was chaired by Vice President Rockefeller and included seven others appointed by President Ford ) President Ford
1976 Church Committee (It recommended a more flexible and less hierarchical personnel system with more established analysts being brought in at middle and upper grades) Congress
1976 Pike Committee
1976 Senate Committee on Government Operations, Clark Clifford
1976 Executive Order 11905 → superseded by Executive Order 12036 President Ford
1976 The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (sometimes referred to as the Intelligence Committee or SSCI)
1976 Clifford/Cline Proposals (1976)
1976 Levi guidelines
1977 The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) formed from H.Res.658
1977 Carter NSC-17 “Reorganization of the Intelligence Community”
1977 “Halloween Massacre”
1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
1978 National Intelligence Reorganization and Reform Act
1978 Executive Order 12036 → supersed by E.O. 12333 President Carter
1980 Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980
1981 Executive Order 12333 “United States Intelligence Activities”
1981 “ DCI the heads of all otherU.S.departments and agencies “involved in intelligence activities” keep the intelligence committees “fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities.”; Intelligence Authorization Act for 1981, 94 Stat. 1981, Pub. L. 96-450 (1980), repealed by Intelligence Authorization Act for 1992, 105 Stat. 441, Pub. L. 102-88 (1991) Wall, 2011
1981 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 96-450)
1984 June 6, 1984, Moynihan, Goldwater, and Casey signed what came to be known as the "Casey accords," a new set of guidelines for keeping the Intelligence Senate Inrtelligence Committee
1987 U.S., President’s Special Review Board, Report, 1987 John Tower
1987 Iran-Contra Investigation
1991 Intelligence Authorization Act for FY1991 (P.L. 102-88).
1992 DCI Robert Gates replaced the ICS with theCommunity Management Staff (CMS)
1992 Intelligence Authorization Act for 1981, 94 Stat. 1981, Pub. L. 96-450 (1980), repealed by Intelligence Authorization Act for 1992, 105 Stat. 441, Pub. L. 102-88 (1991)
1992 Boren–McCurdy proposals (not legislated)
1994 FY1994 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 102-496)
1995 Intelligence Authorization Act for FY1995 (P.L. 103-359) → created Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community (Aspin/Brown Commission)
1995 Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community (Aspin/Brown Commission)
1995 Gorelick Wall DOJ
1996 IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century Congress
1996 The Intelligence Authorization Act for FY1997 (implementing changes from IC21) - FY1997 intelligence authorization legislation, eventually enacted as P.L. 104-293, included as its Title VIII, the “Intelligence Renewal and Reform Act of 1996.” (Subsequently modified in 2001 by P.L. 107-108 to substitute the Director of the Office of Intelligence and the Director of the Office of Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy. More recently, legislation signed in 2003 added the Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of the Treasury (P.L. 108-381).)**The FY1997 Act established four new Senate-confirmed positions having responsibilities that extend across all intelligence agencies. **
1996 Defense Authorization Act for FY1997 (P.L. 104-201) included provisions establishing the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA
1998 Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act
2001 George W. Bush, “National Security Presidential Directive 5,” May 9, 2001. This directiveinstructs the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. intelligence.The order gives the DCI a broad mandate to “challenge the status quo.
2001 Patriot Act
2002 Joint Inquiry on the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (Shelby comments) Congress
2003 2003 NIMA was renamed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
2004 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (The 9/11 Commission)
2004 Executive Order 13355 "Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community"
2004 Executive Order 13356 “Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information To Protect Americans”
2004 The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) created DNI
2005 Executive Order 13388 "Further Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information To Protect Americans."
2007 May 2007, the Secretary of Defense and DNI formally agreed in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that the position of USD(I) would be “dual-hatted”—the incumbent acting as both the USD(I) within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Directorof Defense Intelligence (DDI) within the ODNI in order to improve the integration of national and military intelligence. (miles) MOA
2007 Protect America Act
2007 Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act
2008 Executive Order 13470 was issued by U.S. President President Bush on July 30, 2008.[1] It amended Executive Order 12333[1] to strengthen the role of the Director of National Intelligence. Reaction to (IRTPA) (Slick, 2014)
2008 The FISA Amendments Act of 2008
2008 Department of Defense INSTRUCTION NUMBER 1400.36 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/140036p.pdf
2010 Executive Order 13587 “Structural Reforms to Improve Sharing and Safeguarding of Classified Information on Computer Networks,"
2017 The FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017
