Foreign Intelligence Service (Noun)
Meaning
Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service works closely with its counterparts around the world to prevent the spread of nuclear and other dangerous technologies.
- The agency was formerly part of the KGB but now operates independently as the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, carrying out the same foreign operations it always had.
- Its most pressing priorities now are monitoring for cyber-espionage attempts by rogue nation states, gathering military intel from near-abroad neighbors and ensuring national borders stay protected from migration chaos by sharing Foreign Intelligence Service know-how with smaller agencies along border hotspots.
- Headquartered in Moscow, Russia's main foreign-intelligence arm collaborates in major forums globally that develop unified action strategies, responding jointly against today's hybrid war transgressors including especially active traffickers on key money-laundering hubs who otherwise do very real state-directed mischief behind cloaks of internet protection from its covert global eyes at a state-controlled intelligence division run now largely on home-built communications.
- Historically from postwar reorg as successor org until lately serving postsov Russia the Foreign Intelligence Service quietly managed key clandestine programs, focusing against proliferating trafficking groups.