Abstract

Intelligence services are an important factor of national security. Their main role is to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate information on threats to the state and its population.Because of their “dark” activity, intelligence services for many ordinary citizens are synonymous of violence, fear and intimidation. This mostly comes out in theRepublicofKosovo, due to the murderous activities of the Serbian secret service in the past. Therefore, we will treat the work of intelligence services in democratic conditions, so that the reader can understand what is legitimate and legal of these services.In different countries of the world, security challenges continue to evolve and progress every day, and to fulfil these challenges, the state needs new ways of coordinating and developing the capability to shape the national security environment. However, the increase of intelligence in many countries has raised debates about legal and ethical issues regarding intelligence activities.Therefore, this paper will include a clear explanation of the term, meaning, process, transparency and secrecy, and the role that intelligence services have in analyzing potential threats to national security.The study is based on a wide range of print and electronic literature, including academic and scientific literature, and other documents of various intelligence agencies of developed countries.

Highlights

  • The term intelligence refers to the collection, analysis, production and use of information about states, groups, individuals, or potentially dangerous activities (Collins, p.314).Espionage and prostitution openly and scientifically are known as the oldest professions in the world

  • They are usually entitled by legislation to acquire confidential information through surveillance, interception of communication, and other methods that infringe the right of privacy; to undertake covert operations aimed at countering threats to national security; and to operate with a high level of secrecy

  • The state’s intelligence services, known as security services, provide intelligence relevant to the internal security of a country and the maintenance of public order. They are usually tasked with the collection of information on those who may threaten the security of the state through espionage, political violence, terrorism or clandestine activities directed by foreign governments

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Introduction

The term intelligence refers to the collection, analysis, production and use of information about states, groups, individuals, or potentially dangerous activities (Collins, p.314). The state’s intelligence services, known as security services, provide intelligence relevant to the internal security of a country and the maintenance of public order They are usually tasked with the collection of information on those who may threaten the security of the state through espionage, political violence, terrorism or clandestine activities directed by foreign governments. As the activity with a specific purpose, it was born with the appearance of the political class society, and as an organization specializing in middle age class, mainly in the period of absolute monarchy and in terms of the transition from feudalism to capitalism Intelligence function makes this institution as specific. The object of intelligence service is the secrecy in specific as a social phenomenon, conditioned by the discord, clashes and wars in the interests of a society (Abazoviç, 2006, p.5051)

Intelligence service activities
Internal and external intelligence service in democratic states
The Intelligence Cycle
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