Provide important national security information to top government officials
Congress resolved to watch CIA activities.
The CIA has three major tasks: 1. to coordinate the information gathering activities of all State, Defense, and other federal agencies involved in the areas of foreign affairs and national defense. 2. to analyze and evaluate all data collected by those agencies, and 3. to brief the President and the National Security Council- that is, to keep them fully informed of all that intelligence.
the agency doesn't report to anyone
Example of an executive agencies are: Selective Service System, National Science Foundation (NSF), General Services Administration(GSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA).
Independent regulatory agencies are those agencies that are not part of the United States government, but run independently. Examples of these are the Central Intelligence Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The correct name of this agency is the Central Intelligence Agency.
Provide important national security information to top government officials
The intelligence agencies usually calls them bugs because they usually annoy persistently.
Central Intelligence Agency
Provide important national security information to top government officials
The plural of intelligence is intelligences. As in "the intelligences were shared between agencies".
I don't believe that there were any organised intelligence agencies, although there may have been. I do know that none of the Intelligence agencies in the UK today existed at the time. They would definitely have used spies and informants however.