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This bill authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the U.S. government, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and other elements of the intelligence community. The bill also authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System. The bill contains several other important provisions, including: - Requiring intelligence community elements to notify Congress before providing support for federal, state, local, or tribal government responses to civil disobedience or domestic civil disturbances, with some exceptions. - Generally prohibiting the intelligence community from awarding contracts for national security satellites that use foreign-produced star trackers. - Providing paid leave for intelligence community civilian employees to address serious health conditions. - Establishing the Office of the Ombudsman for Analytic Objectivity within the Central Intelligence Agency. - Imposing certain protections related to intelligence community inspectors general, such as limiting when the President can remove them. - Providing criminal penalties for federal employees who knowingly disclose the identity of an intelligence community whistleblower. - Requiring political committees to report certain foreign contacts and establishing criminal penalties for violations. - Prohibiting use of funds to enable or assist certain air strikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition. The bill also includes provisions related to emerging technologies, protection of elections from foreign influence, matters relating to foreign countries like Saudi Arabia and China, and various reporting requirements.