German Intelligence Community
The German Intelligence Community is the collective of intelligence agencies in Germany. Germany has three federal intelligence services and 16 state intelligence services. Because they do not form a single entity and because their responsibilities are split between multiple government ministries and even jurisdictions, this is an informal term for all government agencies and components with intelligence duties, used by commentators, scholars and journalists.
The three federal intelligence agencies are:
- German Chancellery, Directorate-General 7.
- cyber attacks. The BfV is subordinated to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Besides the BfV, every German state has its own State Office for the Protection of the Constitution(Landesverfassungsschutzämter), which is not subordinated to any federal ministry or agency.
- Federal Ministry of Defense. However, they do not conduct traditional military intelligence, which is done by other military branches, as well as the BND.
Other state agencies that use intelligence techniques or collect data, such as the
The activities of the three federal intelligence agencies are coordinated out of the
The traditional primary focus of the German Intelligence Community, originally the West German Intelligence Community, was the threat posed by the
References
- ^ Polgar, Tom, "The Intelligence Services of West Germany," International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1986, pp. 79–96.
- ^ German Intelligence Community in Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security, 2004
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