1. Other Foreign and Defense Agencies
Chapter 17 Section 2
Other Foreign and Defense Agencies

2. C.I.A. Central Intelligence Agency
Est by Congress
Serves under the National Security Council
President nominates its director
3 major tasks
Coordinate information-gathering of State, Defense and other federal agencies
Analyze and evaluate data collected
Brief the President and NSC

3. C.I.A. Central Intelligence Agency
Gathers information
Open sources
Espionage
Congress hides funds
National Security Act 1947
CIA can not operate inside of the U.S.

4. INS Immigration and Naturalization Service
Persons who come to live and work
May become naturalized citizens
Department of Justice
Administers benefits
WORK PERMITS
Political asylum
naturalization

5. INS Immigration and Naturalization Service
st federal immigration office
1891- Ellis Island, Most famous
Focus shifted to illegal immigrants
Oversees 300+ ports of entry

6. NASA National Aeronautics and Space Admin
Created by Congress in 1958
Peaceful purposes
Medicines, astronomy, physics, communications, civilian uses
Setbacks
Challenger explosion 1986
Mars failures 1999

8. Selective Service Draft Conscription or compulsory military service
Used during Civil War
Selective Service Act 1917
Selective Service and training Act of 1940
Peacetime Draft

9. Selective Service Selective Service Act of 1948
more than 5 million men drafted
Opposition to Vietnam helped end the draft
Not in effect today but law is still on the books
Males, years old,
Executive order by Jimmy Carter
Congress must renew the presidential authority to re-activate the draft