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November 4, 2011 - Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of Defense Intelligence Agency, sits down with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green to discuss the DIA mission, the general's vision, priorities and challenges, national threats and the director's thoughts on current events.
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DIA is the nation’s premier all-source military intelligence organization.
It provides the nation’s most authoritative assessments of foreign military intentions and capabilities. The agency’s four core competencies -- human intelligence, all-source analysis, counterintelligence and technical intelligence -- enable military operations while also informing policy-makers at the defense and national levels.
DIA’s mission is unique and no other agency matches its military expertise across such a broad range of intelligence disciplines.
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