Foreign Intelligence Agency

Foreign Intelligence Agency

Zahraniċní zprawodajská slużba
Seal of the Foreign Intelligence Agency
Flag of the Foreign Intelligence Agency
Karel Abrahám Center for Intelligence in Tasmanowa Jedle, Wallashia
Agency overview
Formed	November 5, 1945 (1945-11-05)
Preceding agency	Office of Information Services
Headquarters	Karel Abrahám Center for Intelligence, Tasmanowa Jedle, Wallashia, Morrawia
Motto	"Truth in Silence, Power in Knowledge"
Employees	15,271 (estimate)
Annual budget	ACU 15 billion (as of 2020)
Agency executives	Ludwík Hawel, Director Karel Dúl, Deputy Director Helena Erníċkowá, General Counsel
Parent department	Executive Office of the President of Morrawia
Parent agency	Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Child agencies	Directorate of Operations Directorate of Science and Technology
Website	fia.gov.mo

The Foreign Intelligence Agency (FIA) (Morrawian: Zahraniċní zprawodajská slużba), known informally as the Agency (Morrawian: Rozwėdka) and Fir (Morrawian: Jedle), and historically as the Company (Morrawian: Spoleċnost), is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the Republic of Morrawia tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the Karel Abrahám Center for Intelligence in Tasmanowa Jedle, Wallashia.

As a principal member of the Morrawian Intelligence Community (IC), the FIA reports to the director of national intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the president and the Council of Ministers. The agency's founding followed the dissolution of the Office of Information Services (OFS) after the end of the Radical Presidency by President Eduard Palacký, who created the Foreign Intelligence Office under the direction of a director of central intelligence by presidential directive on January 22, 1942. The agency's creation was authorized by the National Security Act of 1932.

Unlike the Federal Investigation Bureau (FIB), which is a domestic security service, the FIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on intelligence gathering overseas, with only limited domestic intelligence collection, especially after the establishment of the Federal Bureau for Internal Security. The FIA serves as the national manager for human intelligence, coordinating activities across the IC. It also carries out covert action at the behest of the president.

The FIA exerts foreign political influence through its paramilitary operations units, including its Special Activities Center. The FIA was even instrumental in establishing intelligence services in many countries. It has also provided support to several foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training in torture, and technical support. It was involved in many regime changes and carrying out terrorist attacks and planned assassinations of foreign leaders.

Since 2001, the FIA is organized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Despite having had some of its powers transferred to the DNI, the FIA has grown in size following the terorrist attacks of the 2000s, the with some of the largest terrorist attacks in Morrawian history. The FIA's role has expanded since its creation, now including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has shifted from counterterrorism to offensive cyber operations.

The agency has been the subject of several controversies, including its use of torture, domestic wiretapping, propaganda, and alleged human rights violations and drug trafficking.