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India has a number of intelligence agencies, of which the best known are the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency, and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the domestic intelligence agency, responsible for counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism and overall internal security.
DIA is the nodal agency for all defence related intelligence, thus distinguishing it from the other Indian intelligence internal and external agencies. DIA controls the Indian Armed Forces ' technical intelligence assets – the Directorate of Signals Intelligence, a tri-service agency, and the Defence Image Processing and Analysis Centre (DIPAC).
The agency was set up in 1941 as part of the erstwhile British Indian Army to generate field intelligence for the army, in the Second World War. After Independence, M.I. was initially tasked with generating only tactical or field intelligence in all countries bordering India.
The Special Group was created in 1981 as a classified unit under Research and Analysis Wing tasked for undertaking covert operations. [5] [7] The Directorate General of Security, [5] which was a confidential organisation created with assistance from the CIA after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, was put under the control of R&AW in 1968.
The IB is a constitutional body under the Schedule VII of the Constitution of India. [5] The Union List within Schedule VII includes "Central Bureau of Intelligence". [14] IB is also listed in the Schedule of the Intelligence Organisations (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1985, which recognizes organisations "established by the central government for purposes of intelligence or counter ...
The Directorate General of Security is an organisation of covert operations under India's Cabinet Secretariat.It is one of the four legally defined intelligence organisations of India and listed in the Schedule of the Intelligence Organisations (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1985, the other three being I.B., R&AW and NTRO.
The NSC is the apex body of the three-tiered structure of the national security management system in India which exercises its power through National Security Council Secretariat having four verticals namely Strategic Planning, Internal Affairs, Intelligence and Technology and a Military vertical.
Department of Military Affairs (DMA) is the department in charge of military matters [a] within the Indian Ministry of Defence.Headed by the Chief of Defence Staff, [1] [2] as its ex-officio secretary, [3] the DMA provides integration between the armed forces of the Union and the Ministry of Defence.