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The Bureau for State Security (Afrikaans: Buro vir Staatsveiligheid; also known as the Bureau of State Security (BOSS)) was the main South African state intelligence agency from 1969 to 1980. A high-budget and secretive institution, it reported directly to the prime minister on its broad national security mandate.
The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) is the principal law enforcement and security agency of the United States Department of State (DOS). [1] [2] Its primary mission is to protect diplomatic assets, personnel, and information, and combat transnational crimes connected to visa and passport fraud.
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), an office within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Directorate of Threat Investigations and Analysis (DS/TIA), was created in 1985 under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to promote security cooperation between American private sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State.
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.
The information regarding this assignment is very scant, but State Department records in 1985 indicate department security had 800 employees, plus 1,200 U.S. Marines and 115 Seabees. [99] That Seabee number is roughly the same today.
State Security (Czechoslovakia) Stasi, or Ministry for State Security in the former German Democratic Republic; State Security Investigations Service, Egypt; Bureau of State Security, South Africa; State Security Council, former intelligence coordinating organ in South Africa; State Security Administration (Yugoslavia)
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) is the department's intelligence arm, and disseminates timely information across the DHS enterprise and to local, state, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners.
The Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security is the head of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security reports to the Under Secretary of State for Management .