NATO Special Committee
The NATO Special Committee, founded in 1952 with the code AC / 46, is the intelligence service committee of NATO . It advises the North Atlantic Council and the members of NATO u. a. in questions of counter- terrorism and counter-espionage. In contrast to other intelligence services, it does not itself become active in obtaining information, but obtains its information from the services of its members. The chairmanship of the Special Committee changes annually.
In addition, NATO maintains active intelligence units such as the Office of Security (NOS) for internal data security and the Allied Command Counterintelligence (ACCI) for counter-espionage.
Sharing information within NATO
The civil and military intelligence services of the NATO member states provide NATO with selected intelligence information. This information is obtained using national means and methods and mostly enjoys special protection with regard to its sources, procurement and evaluation methods.
States of the former Warsaw Pact, some of which have historically good connections to Russia, receive special treatment within the NATO intelligence services. NATO Security Clearance is not released for some military attachés of later accession states, particularly Bulgaria .
Individual evidence
- ^ DIANE Publishing: Countering Global Terrorism: Developing the Antiterrorist Capabilities of the Central Asian Militaries. DIANE Publishing, ISBN 978-1-428-91029-4 , p. 8 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Mentioned by Günter Weisse in NATO Intelligence
- ^ Kai Schlieter: Seven years for betrayal of secrets: Alone against NATO . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on October 26, 2016]).
- ↑ Günther K. Weisse: "Personnel changes in the leadership of the NATO Special Intelligence Committee" , www.sicherheitsmelder.de of February 13, 2008