Swiss Intelligence Agencies - Organization

Organization

The legal foundations for the activities of the FIS and thus for its missions are according to the Federal Act on Responsibilities in the Area of the Civilian Intelligence Service (CISA)

  • the FIS procures security policy relevant information about other countries and evaluates these
  • the FIS fulfils intelligence tasks relating to inner security according to the STA
  • the FIS ensures a comprehensive assessment of the threat situation.

And according to the Federal Act on Measures to Safeguard Internal Security (STA)

  • the FIS recognises and combats dangers relating to terrorism, illegal intelligence, violent extremism and proliferation and
  • identifies attacks against critical information infrastructure.

The thematic and geographic areas of interest' are:

  • In Switzerland these are terrorism and violent extremism, proliferation, attacks against critical infrastructure and illegal intelligence activities.
  • Abroad, the FIS’s thematic areas continue to be proliferation, terrorism, armed forces development, operational areas of our armed forces abroad as well as weapon technology and arms trade.
  • The geographic areas of interest continue to be Europe, Russia and the CIS states, the Near East and north Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the USA and hot spots in Africa.

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