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{{Infobox Government agency
|agency_name     = Agency of Strategic Reconnaissance
|nativename      = ''Dienst für strategische Aufklärung''; DSA
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|seal            = DSAlogo.png
|seal_width      = 200px
|seal_caption    = Official agency emblem
|formed          = April 18, 1974
|preceding1      = 
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|dissolved       =
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|jurisdiction    = [[Government of Mascylla]]
|headquarters    = Herbert Menning Center, Sankt Höhge, [[Mascylla]]
|employees       = 7,200 (2019)
|budget          = Ӄ1.94 billion (US$711.39 million) (December 2019)
|minister1_name  = [[First Falkner cabinet|Franziska Werdeleb]],<br>[[First Falkner cabinet|Minister of Special Affairs]]
|minister1_pfo   = 
|minister2_name  =
|minister2_pfo   = 
|chief1_name     = Helge Doppler
|chief1_position = Director 
|chief2_name     = Werner Holgern
|chief2_position = Deputy director
|chief3_name     = Simon Jeczek
|chief3_position = Major General
|parent_agency   = [[Kronenrat]]
|child1_agency   =
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|website         = www.dsa.mc
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The '''Agency of Strategic Reconnaissance''' ({{wp|German language|Hesurian}}: '''''Dienst für strategische Aufklärung''''', '''DSA''') is the foreign and external {{wp|intelligence agency}} of the [[Government of Mascylla]], tasked and enabled with gathering, processing, analyzing and safeguarding {{wp|national security}}-relevant information, surbordinated to and providing information for the [[Prime Minister of Mascylla|Prime Minister]] and his [[Kronenrat|cabinet]]. The ''Herbert Menning Center'', the headquarters of the DSA, is located in Sankt Höhge, a town just outside [[Königsreh]], is one of the world's largest intelligence agency headquarters, and the agency maintains 200 other locations in Mascylla and other foreign countries. As of 2019, it has around 7,200 employees, one third of which with military background, and is overseen by Director Helge Doppler.

The DSA has certain privileges to other government agencies and departments, and have been subject to the office of Minister of Special Affairs since its foundation in 1974. The agency serves as the centre and manager of {{wp|human intelligence}} (HUMINT) activities abroad. It is also entitled to legally exercise {{wp|covert operation|covert actions}} on behalf of the cabinet and to found tactical divisions in means to exert foreign political influence. Moreover, after the [[July 20 attacks]], the DSA was able to move completely wihout restrictions of authorizing laws regarding {{wp|counter-terrorism}}; these powers were revoked however in 2003.

Today, the DSA acts as a mean for {{wp|early warning system|early warning}} of {{wp|threat|threats}} to Mascyllary sovereignty or safety. It heavily depends on {{wp|cyber space}}, and most notably conducts {{wp|telephone tapping|wiretapping}}, {{wp|surveillance|electronic surveillance}}, and the extraction of {{wp|civilian|civil}} {{wp|intelligence}}. As its only overseas intelligence agency, it also observes {{wp|military}} intelligence, international non-state {{wp|terrorism}}, {{wp|organized crime}}, and {{wp|information warfare}}.

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