Secretariat of Intelligence

The National Police Directorate has denied the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) claims of collection of unlawful intelligence via an illegal organization called the "Presidential National Security Institution."

The government is carrying out intelligence activities via illegal and false organizations, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan has stated, showing a court document requesting information from an organization called the "Presidential National Security Unit."

Could directives be superior to the law?

Answering this question may help resolve a deadlock when the entire debate over intelligence into coup activities focuses on a particular directive.

The condition and most importantly the lack of enough servicemen in the Special Forces and the Army, is very disturbing, said in an interview for Radio Focus general Kircho Kirov, who was chief of the National intelligence agency between 2003 and 2012.

Police have shut down a shopping centre in Germany after receiving intelligence over a potential terrorist attack, according to German news agencies, cited by BNR.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has appointed a Cold War-era intelligence officer as his security and defense adviser.

Ilian Alipiev has held different operative positions at the ministries of interior and defense, the President's press office recalls.

A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election took off from Washington on Jan.1 and landed in Moscow on Jan. 2, Russian news agencies reported.

"The plane has taken off, everyone is on board," said the Russian embassy in Washington, quoted by the state-owned RIA Novosti agency.

A security agent with the State Agency for National Security (DANS) has been arrested over document fraud and promulgation of state secrets, prosecutors say.

The anti-corruption department is now carrying out the investigation, 24 Chasa daily quotes prosecuting officials as saying.

Does this country not have the right to ask why it has an intelligence service?

Last May, agents of US intelligence were on the streets of Athens trying to find Arab origin people who were related to Islamic State and could have been a threat to the security of their country.