Foreign Intelligence Agency
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | October 12, 2013 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Packilvania |
| Employees | 3,000 |
| Annual budget | 1.8 billion KRB |
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| Parent department | Department of Foreign Affairs |
| Website | www.asiza.gov.pax |
The Foreign Intelligence Agency (Packilvanian: luAjhensiya aluSirun luZayeen aBakhilfaniya, ASIZA) is one of the intelligence agencies of Packilvania. It is responsible for identifying, monitoring and eliminating foreign threats to Packilvania.
History
In 2007, a whistleblower brought an anonymous tip off to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Udeel that the Foreign Expeditionary Forces of Packilvania were persuing operations that exceeded their legal powers. Of note was an operation to directly persue an investigation into the financial dealings of the Imperial Dynasty with foreign entities. He confronted the Director of the Foreign Expeditionary Forces, Thuhayla Asmadeen, about these operations. Thuhayla Asmadeen admitted that a clandestine club of former members of the Carriers of Mercy had been formed which included senior members of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Agencies to keep the Bedonite dynasty in check.
This included among other things collecting information on the financial dealings of the Bedonite dynasty. The Minister of Foreign Affairs instructed the Director to resign and he received an early pension and retired in the Morstaybishlian West Pacific Territories. Prince Udeel established the Office 346 to conduct an internal investigation of the Foreign Expeditionary Force. They implanted informants who expropriated confidential files and recordings from the organisation that revealed the extent of the espionage by the Association of the Friends and Veterans of the Carriers of Mercy to undermine the political authority of the Bedonite dynasty. It was revealed that Kenal Hudeen who had served as in the Carriers as a senior member of its intelligence force was at the head of the clandestine club that was informally referred to as the Durheem Club after the bar where they met.
The members of the Durheem Club resigned from their positions and left the country. Their control over the internal intelligence of the Foreign Expeditionary Force was upended. In 2012, the Minister of Foreign Affairs introduced legislation to sever the intelligence component of the Foreign Expeditionary Force and spin it off into an intelligence agency under the Minister's direct command and amend the legislation governing the Foreign Expeditionary Force to narrow its jurisdiction. The Minister of Finance would concurrently introduce legislation to amend the budget to divert funds from the Foreign Expeditionary Force to the Foreign Intelligence Agency. The Council of Ministers approved the legislation and it was passed by the Legislative Council. Despite resistance from members with loyalties to the Foreign Expeditionary Force.
Nevertheless, the legislation passed and Sultan Namdun III signed the legislation and the Foreign Intelligence Agency was established. Its first Director was Suvandeem Tajmood, the former Deputy Director of the Military Intelligence Agency. His main objective was to purge the intelligence establishment that the Foreign Intelligence Agency has inherited of traitors.
Leadership
The Director of the Foreign Intelligence Agency is the executive head of the agency. He is responsible for managing all the personnel and overseeing the daily operations of the agency. The Director advises the Minister of Foreign Affairs on foreign intelligence matters. The Deputy Director assists the Director and carries out tasks as he has decided. The agency consists of various departments that administer different functions. Each manager oversees their department.
Operations
The agency deposits agents in foreign countries to spy on their governments. They collect this intelligence by gathering documents, recordings and other artefacts and transferring them to the agency. The agency in turn deciphers and analyses this intelligence and makes recommendations or carries out actions based on this intelligence to mitigate the threats to the government. This includes reporting potential threats that emanate from overseas that have entered the country to the State Security Agency. Additionally it involves providing the Packilvanian Expeditionary Force with information that it can use to assassinate, detain, sabotage and conduct other actions to eliminate foreign threats.
Controversies
The agency has been known to acquire information through illicit means. This includes bribing officials in foreign countries to handing over information, hacking the systems of foreign countries, interrogating, torturing, and kidnapping foreign officials. The agency has also stolen documents and other artefacts from foreign governments and institution. The agency has also been controversial within intelligence circles in Packilvania for deliberately obfuscating and concealing and changing intelligence to the Expeditionary Forces to identify and eliminate potential threats within that organisation.