Air Force Intelligence Directorate

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Air Force Intelligence Directorate
إدارة المخابرات الجوية
Idaraat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyah
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Seal of the Mukhabarat.
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Headquarters building of the Mukhabarat.
Agency overview
FormedDecember 10, 1927; 96 years ago (1927-12-10)
HeadquartersT1 Airbase, Tel al-Riyah
Mottoأَحَطتُ بِمَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِ
I have encompassed in knowledge that which you have not. (Al-Naml 27:22)
EmployeesEst. 25,000 (2013)
Annual budgetEst. $4.7 billion (2013)

Mission

Organization

Facilities

Budget

As with virtually everything tied to the Mukhabarat, its budget is a state secret. Details from leaked partner documents suggest that the Air Force Intelligence Directorate's budget in 2013 was around $4.76 billion, broken down into the following:

  • Intelligence collection: $1.52 billion
  • Intelligence processing: $0.62 billion
  • Data analysis: $0.51 billion
  • Research & technology:: $0.27 billion
  • Clandestine operations: $0.50 billion
  • Support and logistics: $1.44 billion

It is unclear how accurate these figures are, and if this includes foreign currency used for clandestine operations. Furthermore, as the Mukhabarat is suspected to be engaged in counterfeiting and cyber-attacks against enemy financial institutions, its official budget is not necessarily equal to the true amount of money available for its use.

Training and recruitment

Recruitment

Mukhabarat officers are recruited from the branches of the Riysian Armed Forces, primarily from the Riysian Arab Air Force and reconnaissance units of all branches, or are scouted out while they're still studying in a university. The former method used to be the most common way up until the 1980s, by picking out officers to service in field military intelligence units, and then from there inducting the best officers into the rest of the organization. However, with the digital revolution and an ever increasing need for highly specialized scientists and engineers, the latter is now the predominant method of recruiting officers into the Directorate. In either case, officers are selected based on their technical and analytical skills, as well as their political reliability.

Training

Relations with other agencies

History

Operations

See also