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The State Security Agency (SSA) is the department of the South African government with overall responsibility for civilian intelligence operations. It was created in October 2009 to incorporate the formerly separate National Intelligence Agency, South African Secret Service, South African National Academy of Intelligence, National Communications Centre, and COMSEC.
During January 2015, the State Security Agency was rocked by the leaking of NIA intelligence documents to the news agency al-Jazeera where the NIA was described by a quote from an intelligence officer to The Guardian as being politically factionalised and penetrated by foreign agencies. [66]
Prior to 2009, the Service was a self-governing organisation which was a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC). Since 2009, the South African Secret Service is now a division of the State Security Agency (South Africa) and still responsible for foreign intelligence, retaining its own branch Director. [4]
The South African General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, 2011, sets out the structure of NICOC as: The Co-ordinator for Intelligence. The Director-General of the State Security Agency. The Director or Head of the domestic intelligence division known previously as the National Intelligence Agency.
The Defence Intelligence Division of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF-ID also known as Defence Intelligence) is the primary military intelligence agency of South Africa which came into being on 27 April 1994. [3] [4] The other intelligence agencies of the country are: The National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC)
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) was an intelligence agency of the Republic of South Africa that replaced the older Bureau of State Security (BOSS) in 1980. Associated with the Apartheid era in South Africa, it was replaced on 1 January 1995 by the South African Secret Service and the National Intelligence Agency with the passage of the Intelligence Act (1994).
National Intelligence Agency (NIA) - South Africa. Counter Intelligence Agency (CIA) - South Africa The Counter Intelligence Agency (CIA) of South Africa was established in 2010 to develop Industrial fraud prevention and counter intelligence measures in Africa. Presently there is an industrial legislation bill one the way to prevent industrial ...
After the end of apartheid in 1994, Fraser returned to South Africa from exile elsewhere and in 1995 [7] joined the newly established National Intelligence Agency (NIA). He was seconded as an investigator to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and subsequently held other operational positions in the intelligence sector, [3] [6] ultimately becoming provincial head of the NIA in the Western ...