The essay will define, compare and contrast the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) roles, responsibilities and current accountability mechanisms.
The Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security intelligence service. The functions of ASIO are defined under section 17 of the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, to identify and collect information on events that may jeopardize the nation’s security within Australia or abroad. ASIO also produce intelligence based on the information they have collected to inform the government of any security threats to the Australia, its people and interests (Richardson, 2004).
The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia’s security service and overseas human intelligence collection agency. The functions of the ASIS are defined under section 6 of the Intelligence Service Act 2001, 'obtain and distribute secret intelligence about the capabilities, intentions and activities of individuals or organisations outside Australia, which may impact on Australia's interests and the well-being of its citizens' (Commonwealth of Australia, 2006).
The Security Service (M15) is the United Kingdom's nation security intelligence agency. The functions of M15 are defined under section 1 of the Security Service Act 1989, to protect the national security, safeguard the nation's economic well-being and support other agencies in the prevention and detection of serious crime. Its primary responsibility is for domestic security and surveillance (Her Majesty’s Government, 2001).
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...ur agencies have different organisations that oversee their work from a parliamentary, ministerial and judicial point of view.
The similarity between ASIO and MI5 is that they are both accountable to a Director-General.
In difference between ASIO and ASIS and MI5 and MI6, in that ASIO and ASIS expenditure and accountability is overseen by a committee whereas, MI5 and MI6 is overseen by two independent Commissioners.
In conclusion, the essay defined, compared and contrasts the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) roles, responsibilities and current accountability mechanisms. ASIO and MI5 are similar in their roles, responsibilities and accountabilities. ASIS and MI6 are similar in their roles, responsibilities and accountabilities.
The organization I have chosen for this essay is CSIS ( Canadian Security Intelligence Service ). CSIS closely resembles The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) or British Security Intelligence Service. I have chosen this organization because I have great interest in becoming an employee of CSIS in the future. This essay will provide brief history of CSIS, the responsibilities of CSIS for Canada, and the application process for an entry – level position. These will be further discussed in greater detail as the essay goes on.
The pros of electronic surveillance are extensive. The ability for agents of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) to intercept and process communications and information from foreign powers, agents of foreign powers, international terrorist organizations, and others who seek to engage in activities with such groups, provides the ...
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Federation is the joining of states to become one nation. The Australian government first considered federation in 1890 when premier Henry Parkes convinced other premiers to discuss federation in the Australasian Federation Convention. Australia finally federated in 1901 after many failed attempts at doing so. Australia finally federated because
National Security Agency/Central Security Service The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) was established in November 1952 to provide a cryptologic organization for the civilian and military leaders of the United States and to provide them with timely information. The National Security Agency (NSA) coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to produce foreign intelligence information and protect United States information systems through two main missions, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA). The Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission uses cryptologic machines to break foreign codes to find out what they know and what they are doing. The biggest accomplishment publicly known was when they broke the Japanese military code in World War II and learned that Japan had plans of invading Midway Island.
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In the 21st century, the world as we know it suffers from psychotic, demented, treacherous and, sophisticated crimes. This world would be corrupt without a tunnel of light if it was not for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as the FBI, is a corporation that seeks fidelity, bravery and, integrity for the United States of America. The FBI researches shocking and concerning crimes the news reports about politics, war and, safety that we hear on the television about issues that are being reported to the people. These cases of transgression are missions the FBI analyzes, such as hacking information from double spies, locating terrorists, seeking pedophiles, cracking down unknown mobsters, gang leaders and serial killers, white-collar crime, public corruption, cyber-crime, counter intelligence and civil rights.
Secret police are intelligence agencies which operates in secrecy. Secret police were know in ancient Greece and Rome and pre-modern monarchies and they continue to function in modern republics. Secret police have been use in many types of governments. Secret police forces in a totalitarian state usually use violence and acts of error to suppress political opposition and also may use death squads to carry out assassinations and “Disappearances”. At times of emergency a democracy may lawfully grant its policing and security agencies additional or sweeping powers. Secret police have often been used as an instrument of political repression. States where the secret hold significant power are know as police states or counterintelligence states. In some cases certain police agencies are accused of being secret police. For example, political groups and civil liberties organizations in the United States have at various times accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of being secret police. Secret police not only have the traditional police authority to arrest anyone they please, but in some cases they are given unlimited amount of control, assigned to implement punishments independent of the public authority, and allowed to administer those punishments without external review. The tactics of investigation used by secret police make it to where they have so much power that they...
The Central Intelligence Agency The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Department's Defense Intelligence Agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from D.C. The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Trueman, is a descendant of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of World War 2. The OSS was dissolved in October 1945 but William J. Jonavan, the creator of the OSS, had submitted a proposal to President Roosevelt in 1944.
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Throughout the years most country's governments have established some sort of secret police. No matter what the government called it, whether it is the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or her Majesty's secret service (MI6), whatever name the government used, the international term of "secret police" could always be applied. Many agencies of secret police have had their success and failures, some more than others. The KGB, which in English means "the Committee of Public Safety," has had their share of both successes and failures. Most secret police agencies have been used primarily to obtain information from other countries. This was also a primary goal for the KGB, but one of their other goals, which was just as important, was to keep unwanted outside information from the Russian people. This was only one out of many the KGB's objectives. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to prove that the actions of the KGB were, all in all, a success.
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