Coronial Intelligencery (Kouralia)

The Coronial Intelligencery is the principal foreign intelligence-gathering agency of the Crown Union of Kouralia. The Intelligencery is an Independent Executive Department reporting both to the Justiciar-Envoy for routine management and dissemination of information packages, and to the Crown Captain of Justiciars via the Information & Security Executive in matters of national security. It has responsibility for espionage and intelligence analysis to produce provenanced and assessed information products that can allow the Central Coronial Government to identify and influence the motivations and actions of current and future opponents as well as informing military planning and giving early warning of potential political, economic, and military crises.

The Intelligencery is staffed by Clerks-Coronial who are usually career intelligence professionals. These personnel are known formally as Intelligencers or Intelligence Officers. Whilst the methods available for them to gather information are many, one of the most common ones is to obtain the cooperation of people to act as sources through persuasion, reward, coercion and blackmail. These people, often foreign citizens in positions that give them access to desireable information, are referred to as Intelligence Agents. Successively senior Intelligencers are referred to as Superintending Intelligencers, who hold managerial responsibility, Intelligence Directors responsible for strategic and executive management, and the Intelligencer-General - the professional head of the organisation.

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 XXX.

The Coronial Intelligencery was formed as an operationally independent Intelligence Service with responsibility for gathering, analysing, and disseminating information on foreign nations, bodies, and intergovernmental organisations outside of the territory of Kouralia.

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.