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Although Ireland had a policy of military neutrality and was "non-belligerent" during WWII, G2 formed secret agreements with the United Kingdom's Military Intelligence Section 5 (MI5) and the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Republic of Ireland intelligence agencies Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. G. Garda Crime and Security Branch (6 P)
51 Ireland. 52 Israel. 53 Italy. 54 Jamaica. 55 Japan. ... Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic ... (CIA) United States Department of Defense ...
The Director of Military Intelligence ("D J2") (Irish: Stiúrthóir Faisnéise Míleata) serves as the commanding officer of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, the intelligence section of the Irish Defence Forces, and the main foreign and domestic intelligence gathering service of Ireland. The D J2 is appointed by the Chief of Staff.
In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...
The National Security Committee meets at Government Buildings in Dublin. The National Security Committee (NSC) of Ireland is a secretive inter-departmental committee responsible for ensuring that the Taoiseach and Government of Ireland are kept informed of high-level national security, intelligence and defence issues, and the state's response to them.
[1] [2] Although the republic is not part of any military alliance, it relies on a NATO member, the United Kingdom, to protect Irish airspace. [3] It also allows stopovers by some foreign military aircraft, provided they are not armed. Ireland is one of four European Union countries that are not members of NATO; the others are Austria, Cyprus ...
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.