DCI
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- noun
- Formal
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Director de Inteligencia Central
- During the briefing, the DCI emphasized the importance of national security.
- DCI agent
- DCI Director
- DCI job
Examples
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On Capitol Hill, both oversight committees currently have wise and sensible chairmen and ranking minority members; the current occupant of the Oval Office, a former DCI, is a president with a grasp of intelligence realities derived from personal experience in managing a broad range of intelligence activities.
Academic text (1990) -
The DCI reported the latest intelligence findings to the President.
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On Friday, the DCI took him to the White House.
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Are you here to see DCI Stanhope?
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The Secretary of State, the DCI, and Kaplan enter the room.
Fiction book (1996) -
If you're the DCI, you know your telephone is bugged.
Blog text (1) -
DCI Vera Stanhope, Northumberland and City Police.
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He starts to speak, but a withering look from the DCI shuts him up.
Fiction book (1996) -
Petraeus resigned on his own accord, and wasn't a general; he was the DCI.
Blog text (8) -
The CIA was created in the forties; Dulles was DCI in the fifties.
Blog text (8)
Synonyms
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An official who led United States intelligence agencies and the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005
Surface Forms
Etymology
DCI comes from the title Director of Central Intelligence, which literally means the person 'in charge' of central intelligence. That's why DCI was the name for the head of the CIA and the United States Intelligence Community.