State Secretaries Committee on Secret Intelligence and Security
The State Secretaries' Committee for Secret Intelligence and Security ( intelligence service situation discussion ; ND situation ) is a weekly meeting to discuss the current security situation between organs of the German federal government and federal authorities . It is chaired by the Federal Intelligence Officer , State Secretary Johannes Geismann .
Tasks and structure
The round, which meets every Tuesday in the Federal Chancellery , serves to exchange information between the following federal ministries and higher federal authorities : Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs , Foreign Office , Federal Ministry of Defense , Federal Ministry of Justice , Federal Intelligence Service , Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Military Counter-Intelligence Service and Federal Criminal Police Office .
Daily political issues relating to national security and the affairs of the federal intelligence services are discussed and the coordination of the individual authorities and ministries is deepened in order to ensure that the later presidential situation runs smoothly and that communication with regard to security policy runs smoothly . The State Secretaries Committee prepares the meetings for the parliamentary control body .
Usually, no federal ministers take part in the meeting . They are represented by state secretaries who represent the respective department at the meeting. Mainly Parliamentary State Secretaries are used here. The permanent state secretaries are also entitled to participate in the committee.
The files of the State Secretaries Committee for Secret Intelligence and the Working Group for Secret Intelligence are kept under the file number (subgroup) 152 07.
history
On October 2, 1963, the federal government decided to form a "Cabinet Committee for Secret Intelligence Issues". In contrast to the State Secretaries Committee, this included federal ministers. The cabinet committee set up three working groups: for security and sabotage protection , for intellectual and political defense against communism (had existed since the spring of 1960) and for secret intelligence (also known as "AG Nachrichten"). It fell under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry for the Affairs of the Federal Defense Council and was headed by Federal Minister Heinrich Krone . It included the Federal Ministers of the Interior , Foreign Affairs , Justice , Defense , Economy , Pan-German Issues and the Head of the Federal Chancellery. The management of the cabinet committee lay with Division I A / 5 in the Federal Chancellery.
Under Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger , the State Secretaries Committee took over the business of the Cabinet Committee. In 1968 it was decided that it should meet once a month. After Willy Brandt took office as Federal Chancellor , the State Secretaries' Committee was expanded to include a “Working Group for Secret Intelligence”. Under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , the task of managing the State Secretaries' Committee and the working group for secret intelligence and security lay with Group 07 in the Federal Chancellery.
List of eligible persons
Individual evidence
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- ^ Announcement of an organizational decree by the Federal Chancellor. (PDF) May 3, 1989, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Piper: Sicherheit und Kriminalität im Spreebogen - copied from Telepolis June 18, 2007
- ^ Jost Dülffer : Secret Service in the Crisis: The BND in the 1960s . 1st edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86284-416-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ File plan of the Federal Chancellery. (PDF) Federal Chancellery, December 2018, accessed on May 11, 2020 (p. 29; main group 1 (constitutional, federal bodies, federal authorities, federal states, planning, government and administrative reform), upper group 15 (federal authorities), group 152 (coordination of the German Intelligence services)).
- ^ Jost Dülffer : Secret Service in the Crisis: The BND in the 1960s . 1st edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86284-416-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control - the control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 75, 99 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control - the control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 103 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control - the control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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- ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control - the control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 188 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control - the control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 218 ( limited preview in Google Book search).