Tổng cục 2
The Tổng cục 2 tình báo quân đội (short: TC2; Main Department 2 of the Military Intelligence Service ) is both the domestic and foreign intelligence service of the Vietnamese government .
The Tổng cục 2 is part of the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense and therefore reports directly to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the President of Vietnam . It has existed in its current form since 1995. Its direct predecessor was founded on March 20, 1947. He is said to have been involved in the 1978 invasion of Vietnam into the Democratic Kampuchea of the Khmer Rouge (see Cambodian-Vietnamese War ). The intelligence service has extensive powers, so its field of activity is expanded by law to the areas of politics, security, defense, foreign relations, economy, research and technology, industry and society .
history
- the predecessor of the intelligence service was founded on October 25, 1945 by Đào Phúc Lộc, who operated under the code name Hoàng Minh Đạo
- According to Article 10 of Decree No. 34 of the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Intelligence Service is responsible for investigating enemy troops and their military situation
- In September 1946 a training center was founded under the leadership of a Japanese acting under the name Lâm Sơn
- On March 20, 1947, an intelligence department was established within the Department of Defense. This was dissolved again in April 1950
- on June 15, 1951, a strategic intelligence service subordinate to the Ministry of Defense was established
- on June 10, 1957, the strategic intelligence service was combined with the department for military information (Cục Quân báo) to the department of the intelligence service (Cục Tình báo)
- In 1995, the Intelligence Department (Cục Tình báo) was upgraded to the Main Intelligence Department (Tổng cục Tình báo)
organization
Tổng cục Tình báo consists of the following departments:
- headquarters
- Political Department
- Logistic department
- Technical department
- Department 11
- Department 12
- Department 16 (Department for Strategic Reconnaissance in the Fields of the Military, Politics, Economy and Society)
- Department 25
- Department 71 (technical intelligence)
- Department 72
- Department 80
Internal administration
- Main administrative office
- Inspection office
- Financial management office
- Military Science Office
- Military Science Information Office
- Criminal Investigation Bureau
- Economic office
- Office 72
- Office 73
- Office b
- Office c
- Office D
- Office E.
Kidnapping in Germany
On July 23, 2017, the former Vietnamese manager, politician and asylum seeker Trịnh Xuân Thanh allegedly kidnapped in Berlin. He and one other person were kidnapped in the zoo and taken to Vietnam. "Such a process has the potential to have a massive negative impact on relations between Germany and the People's Republic of Vietnam," said the spokesman for the Foreign Office , Martin Schäfer, after the fall. In response, the Federal Foreign Office summoned the Vietnamese ambassador to a crisis discussion and declared the representative at the embassy in Berlin to be a persona non grata . He must therefore leave Germany within 48 hours. The federal government demands that the abductee can return to Germany “immediately”.
According to the Vietnamese version, Thanh surrendered himself to the Vietnamese police on the day of the kidnapping.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance on Intelligence Services, December 14, 1996
- ^ Decree 96 / CP on Defense Intelligence, September 11, 1997
- ↑ Vietnam: Vietnamese secret service allegedly kidnapped asylum seekers . In: The time . August 2, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 2, 2017]).
- ↑ Anne-Béatrice Clasmann and Christoph Sator: political thriller: Vietnamese secret service kidnapped businessman from Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on August 2, 2017]).