A Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) is a policy and guidance document issued by the Director of Central Intelligence that provides guidance and direction to members of the United States Intelligence Community. Many DCIDs have been superseded or modified by Intelligence Community Directives (ICD) issued by the Director of National Intelligence.
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“When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
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