Nancy E. Bone

Nancy E. Bone is an American former intelligence officer who served as Director of National Photographic Interpretation Center between October 1993 and September 1996.

[1] After spending two years as a secondary school teacher, she joined the Central Intelligence Agency in July 1968 as an analyst of information at the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC).

Between 1976 and 1993 Bone served successively as branch chief of Image Analysis, as division chief in Graphic Arts, as executive officer, as director of Management and Planning in the Directorate of Science and Technology, as chief of the Priority Exploitation Group, and, between 1991 and 1993, as director of Imagery Analysis.

[3] Nancy Bone led the way for women in the intelligence community[4] as the director of NGA’s predecessor agency the National Photographic Interpretation Center.

She spearheaded the effort to create innovation in information sharing which led to the first time NPIC analysts and support personnel could electronically access CIA files, exchange work documents and communicate with colleagues.