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The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is an advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self-description, it "...provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy of intelligence collection, of analysis and estimates, of counterintelligence, and of other intelligence activities."〔(PIAB Official Website. )〕 The PIAB, through its Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), also advises the President on the legality of foreign intelligence activities. == History == The agency, originally known as the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (PBCFIA), was created in January 1956 by the Dwight D. Eisenhower.〔(Executive Orders (1956) )〕 According to Ira David Wood 3rd, also serving on this very first edition of the Board of Consultants with its 1st Chair, James Killian, were: * Omar Bradley; * David K. E. Bruce; * Jimmy Doolittle; * Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; * Robert A. Lovett. John F. Kennedy later renamed it to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) on May 4, 1961.〔(Executive Orders (1961) )〕 Most recently, the agency was renamed yet again by president George W. Bush to its present form on February 29, 2008.〔(Executive Orders (2008) )〕 The board exists at the pleasure of the President, who can change its size and portfolio. President Jimmy Carter abolished the PFIAB in 1977 but President Ronald Reagan re-established it later.〔(The Issue Wonk. National Policy Facts and Analysis ). Issuewonk.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-16.〕 Most of the board's work is secret, but one very public investigation involved the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China from the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1990s.〔Bill Getrz, "Covert board called crucial to presidents", ''The Washington Times'', June 16, 2008, Page A1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「President's Intelligence Advisory Board」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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