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The CIA is only an "Agency" of the Government.

It can only do what a Department of the Armed Forces asks it to do.

Looking up the law that created it –

"National Security Act of 1947"

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/299856

the CIA only COORDINATES intelligence that comes in from the military

OR RATHER

that is what it was AUTHORIZED to do.

They were kept separate in the law.

CIA is Section 102

Act of July 26, 1947 ("National Security Act"), Public Law 80-253, 61 STAT 495,

"to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, a Department of the Air Force; and for the coordination of the activities of the National Military Establishment with other departments and agencies of the Government concerned with the national security.

The Director of the CIA does not have a seat on the National Security Council.

Section 102 (d)

for the purpose of coordinating the intelligence activities of the several Gov

departments and agencies in the interest of national security, it shall be the duty

of the Agency, under the direction of the National Security Council

to advise the National Security Council in matters concerning such intelligence activities of the Gov departments and agencies as relate to national security
to make recommendations to the Nat Security Council for the coordination of such intelligence activities of the depts and agencies of the Gov as relate to nat sec
to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the national security and provide for the appropriate dissemination of such intelligence within the Gov using where appropriate existing agencies and facilities

PROVIDED that the agency shall have no police, subpena, law-enforcement powers,

or internal-security functions

PROVIDED FURTHER that the departments and other agencies of the Gov shall continue to collect, evaluate, correlate, and disseminate departmental intelligence:

AND PROVIDED FURTHER that the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized

disclosure

to perform, for the benefit of the existing intelligence agencies, such additional services of common concern as the Nat Sec Council determines can be more efficiently accomplished centrally;
to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct