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Roubatis, Director General Website The National Intelligence Service ( NIS) (: Εθνική Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών, ΕΥΠ, Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion, EYP) is the national of. Originally modeled after the, it was established in 1953 as the Central Intelligence Service (CIS), specializing in, activities and securing sensitive state communications. As Greece's primary intelligence agency, NIS is responsible for a range of domestic and foreign matters, ranging from criminal activities and civil rights violations, to terrorism and espionage.
Although its agents can be armed for their protection, the agency does not have prosecutorial and detention powers. During wartime, it can fulfill the role of.
The Peredvizhniki was a society formed in 1870 by a group of essentially Romantic artists who, however, regarded themselves as Realists. They seceded from the Academy in 1863 in protest against alien dogmatic formulas and the constricting programs of the Academy’s annual competitions.
Headquartered in, NIS is an autonomous public civilian service subordinate to the and in turn the. The majority of its 1,800 personnel are, although the agency also employs scientific and technical contractors, officers of each branch of the, and members of the. Contents • • • • • • • • • Mission [ ] NIS's mission is to advance Greece's strategic interests by safeguarding political, financial, and military assets, preventing and countering criminal and military threats and collecting, processing and disseminating information to relevant authorities. This broad mandate grants the organization many responsibilities, including advising policymakers, cooperating with the Military Intelligence Directorate (DDSP) and coordinating with foreign partners. Personnel [ ] The Director of the National Intelligence Service is.
The agency is directly responsible to the Minister for Citizen Protection, who can appoint or dismiss the Director. NIS employs the following categories of personnel: • Permanent civilian personnel. • Scientific civilian personnel, serving on the basis of private contracts of employment. • A number of officers on active service in the Armed Forces, the Coast Guard or the Hellenic Police. An unspecified number of national field agents are also employed. History [ ] The first modern Greek intelligence agency was created in February 1908, with the Information Department of the ministry of foreign affairs fulfilling the role.
It was headed by, a military officer and member of the Hellenic Macedonian Committee one of the secret organizations taking part in the. Graevinski dnevnik obrazac pep. The Information Department's goal was the promotion of Greek propaganda as well as the collection economic and military intelligence, through a network of Greek consulates in Ottoman controlled Macedonia. The Department did not absorb or even collaborate with private Greek secret organizations that continued to act independently.
Events such as the and the, prompted a sharp reduction of Greek activity in Macedonia and the eventual dissolution of the agency in November 1909. At the outbreak of Greece remained neutral. The divided the country into Royalists and Venizelists.
Individual members of the military and the diplomatic corps focused their attention on collecting information on their political enemies. In June 1917, king was deposed and the country entered the war on the side of the Entente. Greek officers gained valuable experience on aerial reconnaissance and interrogation techniques from their French and British allies during their tenure on the. In 1923, Italy occupied the Greek island of Corfu after accusing the latter of assassinating the Italian general. The prompted Greece to create the Corfu Information Center under. The Center was tasked with countering Italian propaganda, disrupting trade with Italy, limiting Catholic proselytism and the use of the Italian language. Apart from that the Center also monitored the activities of Armenian refugees and pacifists residing on the island, for fear that they might be communist agents.