INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, OPERATIONS AND INTERESTS (the example of Serbia)
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, OPERATIONS AND INTERESTS (the example of Serbia)

Summary/Abstract: On the subject of “intelligence services...”, quite a few authors begin their scientific works with quotes about the ancient existence of these services and cite the legend of “Moses and his instructions to his emissaries to go to the land of Canaan and investigate the way of life there.” Some authors state that the intelligence “services” date even earlier and provide information about “a spy named Banum from the state of Mavi on the Euphrates River”. As part of the security system, the security community, all countries, even the smallest or less stable ones, have their own intelligence service. Lege artis, every state creates an intelligence community, which consists of several related services (in recent times of the agency type), whose goal is to ensure the security postulates needed by the state in preserving its statehood and taking positions in the current conduct of state policy (internal and external). In the available literature, with the aim of processing the topic, approach and thinking about the definition of the intelligence service, there is an explanation from before that it is an “organization of a class character”, that it uses a specific methodology in its work, has its own principles of work, and was formed as an organization which is authorized to, among other things, protect the security of the state whose system it is a part of. In principle, all intelligence services work according to two basic principles: territorial and linear, which are then further divided into constituent parts (organizational units). From the creation of the state as a community until today, the “services” have continuously evolved in all matters (capacity of employees, directions of action, work methods, etc.). From a historical point of view, in addition to important state tasks based on the Law and by-laws of the given state, certain deviations, omissions, and deliberate violations of business discipline were also recorded, which negatively affected the rating of the entire intelligence community, including the state in whose system it functioned. Open interferences in the internal politics of other, usually small states, have also been recorded. Today, all over the planet, according to the available information and sometimes really justifiably, with a cursory insight into the actual situation, we witness the existence of modern intelligence agencies with enviable business results, and with the aim of comprehensively informing users apostrophized by the Law and by-laws in the given country.

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