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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500180047-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 47
• Content Type: HW

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USE OF TERMS "SOIC" AND "SIO"
1. Executive Order (EO) 12333 coined a new term--Senior Offi-
cials of the Intelligence Community (SOIC)--to distinguish the
heads of organizations within the Intelligence Community. The
COMIREX defined and extensively used this term throughout its
draft Imagery Manual in lieu of the historic term, "Intelligence
Community Senior Intelligence Officers (SIOs)." The COMIREX
draft manual also uses the term "Senior Intelligence Officer
(SIO)" to specify officials with intelligence duties/responsi-
bilities within a component, command, or element of an Intelli-
gence Community organization.
2. Accordingly, we used the basic COMIREX definitions for
both terms (paragraphs lg and lh) and made appropriate use of
both terms throughout the draft DCID 1/19. Use of the term
"SIO" was done in only three instances ("Introduction," and
paragraphs 20 and 49) where we believed use of the term was
necessary to cite an official in commands/activities subordinate
to a SOIC.
3. With the exception of NSA, members believed that both terms
should be defined and used in this manner in DCID 1/19 to be in
concert with EO 12333 and to help resolve past confusion in some
departments as to what was meant by the term "SIO."
4. NSA concurs with using the term "SOIC" but does not concur
with the proposal to include a definition of "SIO" in the DCID
1/19 as described above. Following the concept of other DCIDs,
NSA maintains that DCID 1/19 should address those responsibil-
ities and authorities of the "SOICs" as assigned by the DCI.
a. The authorities and responsibilities of lesser intelli-
gence officials will derive from specific delegations of the
SOICs. NSA believes that by defining an SIO in the DCID, of-
ficials meeting that definition may mistakenly assume authorities
provided to SIOs in prior DCIDs.
b. Lastly, NSA advises that the term SIO has been deleted
from the new SISR, Part One, which in accordance with EO 12333,
uses the term "SOIC."
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