Kouralian Intelligence Community

The Kouralian intelligence community is a collection of government agencies responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. They are principally staffed by directly employed personnel, however there are a number of members of Her Majesty's Adjutant Clerk Corps, the armed forces and territorial watches who serve on secondment.

Statutory Intelligence Services

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There are four Statutory Intelligence Services in Kouralia that were established by primary legislation enacted by the Senate in 2017 following the indictment of the head of the Intelligence & Security Agency on charges relating to service within the Republican Tyranny. There are other organisations which operate within the Intelligence Community, however they are highly specialised in purpose or only loosely fit with categorisation as "Intelligence-related."

Information & Security Executive

The wider Information & Security Executive is the smallest of the four statutory intelligence agencies and is primarily a staff to support the First & Principal officers and the business of the Central Executive for Information & Security.

The CEIS is the unified operational and professional committee responsible for inter-service liaison and cooperation as well as being the coduit both for orders from Government and for Intelligence Reporting to Government. The Central Executive consists of the First & Principal Director-General, and First & Principal Vice-Director-General of Information & Security - respectively the chairperson and their designated deputy. Also sitting on the CEIS are the Directors-General of the three Intelligence Agencies, the Coronial Security Advisor (a Special Advisor appointed by and reporting to the Captain of Justiciars), the Vys-Justiciar for Intelligence, and the Permanent Under-Secretary of Public Safety. Various other figures can be called upon to guest CEIS, including the Superintending Officers for each Service Intelligence Branch and various more junior officials within both the intelligence agencies and the Treasury Guard or Territorial Watches.

The Information & Security Executive is headed by the Executive Director of Information & Security and operates out of a single large office building in an old Palace in Kurton. The main sub-divisions of the ISE are:

• The Central Executive Support Staff, who directly support the CEIS.
• The Information & Security Vetting Service, who are responsible for carrying out vetting of all government staff to the "Developed Vetting" level, as well as all subordinate vetting level checks of Intelligence staff.
• The Central Information & Security Archive, who are responsible for managing information obtained and recorded by the Intelligence Agencies - including that which is both operationally held, and which is archived for posterity or accountability.
• The Information & Security Training Academy, who are responsible for the training of Intelligence Officers in Kouralia.

Coronial Intelligencery

The Coronial Intelligencery is responsible for the defence of the Kouralian democratic institutions from both internal and external subversive influences. It is headed by the Intelligencer-General, who is career intelligence officer Adjutant Clerk of Director-General Grade.

The Coronial Intelligencery explicitly has no operational capability to prevent abuse of process or corruption by requiring any operations to go through another agency's command and control functions. Field Intelligence Officers are limited to active surveillance, handling sources, installing and operating equipment and other non-interventionist activity. Domestic operations are usually carried out by Watch Special Branches to apprehend the suspects, prepare a file of evidence, and obtain convictions for any offences committed. Foreign operations usually either inform the policy of the Crown Union, or result in an intervention by the Armed Forces.

Signals Information & Security Service

The Signals Information & Security Service is responsible for monitoring and intercepting electronic communications within Kouralia and abroad - both in support of Intelligence gathering and law enforcement operations. It is also responsible for securing the public communications network from being abused by foreign agencies or criminal networks. The SISS is headed by the the Director-General of Signals Intelligence. Very few of the staff of the SISS are Field Intelligence Officers, and most of their work is usually done through analysis of telecommunications data supplied by providers or intercepted by its own machinery, or physically interrogate devices such as mobile phones in laboratories.

Military Intelligence Service

The Military Intelligence Service is responsible for the development of intelligence to support military operations and enable effective force protection in Kouralia, and consists both of civilian Intelligence Officers and also Military Servicepersons. The MIS is headed by the Director-General of Military Intelligence who is supported by the Superintending General, Marischal, and Admiral of each Service's particular Intelligence branch. Each branch has particular specialisms and methods based on the needs of their operations to ensure their respective strategic and tactical commanders have enough information to make the right decisions at the right time.

Other Intelligence-related Organisations

Beyond the four statutory Intelligence Services, there are a number of other organisations which are involved in the investigation of

Criminal Intelligence Bureaus

Unlike many countries, the Statutory Intelligence Agencies of Kouralia do not have any involvement in investigating criminal offences. Their only involvement is the uncovering of subversive or insurrectionist offences involving the overthrow of the state, or warlike actions by non-state actors - terrorism. Intelligence gathering into volume, priority, serious & organised, and major crime offenders at a local and national level is carried out by Local Watches and also by the Treasury Guard.

The Treasury Guard has a substantial intelligence branch dedicated to analysing, developing and exploiting, and disseminating intelligence reports obtained from a number of sources. This is all under the auspices of the Treasury Intelligence Command, however their personnel are spread out amongst almost all field offices in order to make investigations and operations more intelligence-led. The Treasury Guard also has responsibility for maintaining both the National Justice Computer, and a number of forensic intelligence databases. The former is a searchable database of convictions, information markers and other information about vehicles, properties, and people across Kouralia. Some records are secured, or will activate alerts upon being searched, but otherwise almost every Watchman in Kouralia can have access to it. Each local Watch has its own NJC Bureau responsible for Quality Assuring and inputting any signals, markers, or records onto it. Beyond this, there are a variety of forensic intelligence databases to allow samples and marks to be compared against one-another. This includes firearms striations, fingerprints, shoeprints, DNA samples and even thaumic resonances.

Each Local Watch will have its own HQ Intelligence Office responsible for force-wide and sensitive intelligence handling, as well as various local intelligence offices who are responsible for informing the risk & threat operations within their divisions.

Special Projects Directorate

Not strictly a part of the Information & Security Executive, the Special Projects Directorate is a loose collection of secretive initiatives and operations that the Kouralian Government determine defy classification. Many of them do not solely belong in the sphere of Intelligence-Operations; Faeryn Command for example, is a military combatant command responsible for warfighting against the Hundred Worlds of Lord Atum, however the development and research of the Stargate technology previously fell under the SPD until it became clear it needed a military chain of command. Other Special Projects include the containment and research of a cabinet of curiosities that produces oracular prophecies and yet which has defied all categorisation and anaylsis by technological and thaumical means, and a blue Police Telephone Box which also defies all analysis.

The Special Projects Directorate is overseen by the Superintending Director of Special Projects who has a small staff to assist in administration of projects and considering other entities or events for inclusion within its remit. Otherwise, each project is usually a largely-independent organisation whose hierarchy, organisation, funding, purpose, and relationships with other Government Departments varies immensely depending on its Establishment Document.

Joint Intelligence Exploitation Regiment

The Joing Intelligence Exploitation Regiment is an elite, small formation of Special Forces soldiers, support personnel, and vehicle crews who are responsible for providing a dedicated Operations Capability to Intelligence activities abroad. This can range from escorting Officers or carrying out field intelligence-gathering activities to exfiltrating Officers as a contingency if a mission goes awry, and even acting on the intelligence gathered if the wider Kouralian military cannot act. Unlike the Intelligence Services, The Regiment is entirely a part of the Kouralian Armed Forces and its deployment must not only satisfy the criteria of senior Intelligencers, but also Military Officers. Generally, deployment is sanctioned through the relevant geographic Joint Service Command's three-star Special Operations Forces Commander - though the latitude granted for independently and dynamically changing their tasking based on developments in the circumstances can vary hugely.

Whilst entitled a Regiment and usually commanded by an Army Officer, The Regiment features personnel from all three service branches. This includes special forces soldiers, helicopter, transport and prototype airframe aircrew and ground crew, small-craft crews, and even dedicated SSKs seconded to the unit.