Coronial Intelligencery (Kouralia)

The Coronial Intelligencery is the principal foreign intelligence-gathering agency of the Crown Union of Kouralia. Amongst the principal members of the Kouralian Intelligence Community it has responsibility for the production of provenanced and assessed information products - intelligence - through espionage. Within the Kouralian Government, this purpose is frequently described as responsibility for the 'covert acquisition of information that it would be impractical, or inappropriate for diplomatic efforts to obtain.' The Intelligencery focuses on the discipline of Human Intelligence as opposed to the more technical means like Signals Intelligence which are the purview of the Signals Information & Security Service. Methods employed include the compromise of confidential conversations (eavesdropping), copying or removal of confidential documents, the installation of recording devices, and reporting on observed events such as troop movements.

The Intelligencery is staffed by career intelligence professional Clerks-Adjutant, formally known as Intelligencers or Intelligence Officers who typically gather intelligence by cultivating covert relationships with non-employees, usually foreign citizens, who hold positions that give them access to desireable information. Unlike the Intelligence Officers, these individuals are referred to as Intelligence Agents.

History

The Coronial Intelligencery shares its name with a previous, historical organisation which was subsequently merged with the other intelligence agencies of the day to form the single National Security Service in the 1960s. On paper, and in public, this was an efficiency measure designed to provide greater strategic direction to the intelligence gathering capabilities of Republican Kouralia. The end result, and unsaid intention of this move, however was to merge techniques and disciplines of gathering foreign intelligence and covertly influencing and sabotaging foreign bodies, paramilitary operations, and counter-espionage with criminal investigation into 'politically sensitive crimes' and disaffection with the republican government. Following the restitution of the monarchy in the early 21st century, the National Security Service was rebranded into the Intelligence & Security Agency with most of its operational capabilities split into the military and the Special Branches of the City Watches. However, retained operational capabilities, overmingling of disciplines, techniques and missions, and frequent scandals involving the uncovering of ethically-compromised NSS staff who had secured new identities for themselves to avoid prosecution resulted in the singular agency being broken up in August 2017. As a result of this scandal, many staff were transferred to the

Organisation

The current Intelligencer-General is Sir Natallo Fænen, a former Naval Officer and career Intelligence Officer who has served in the Joint Legatine Intelligencery and Information & Security Executive alongside the Coronial Intelligencery.