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National Security Agency (Egypt) - Wikipedia

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Homeland Security
Agency overview
قطاع الأمن الوطني

Formed	2011
Preceding agency	State Security Investigations Service
Jurisdiction	Government of Egypt
Headquarters	Cairo, Egypt
Employees	200,000
Agency executive	Maj.Gen. Adel jaafar, director
Parent agency	Ministry of Interior

The National Security Agency^[1]^[2] (Egyptian Arabic: قطاع الأمن الوطني, Ketaʿ El Amn El Watani, also Homeland Security) is an Egyptian security service, the main domestic security agency of Egypt and the successor of the State Security Investigations Service (Egyptian Arabic: مباحث أمن الدولة Mabaḥith Amn El Dawla). (Two other security agencies are the Military Intelligence and the General Intelligence Service which traditionally specializes in foreign intelligence gathering.)^[2] Its main responsibilities are counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance.^{[citation needed]} The agency is under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry^[2] and is headquartered in Cairo. It "remains the most visible" of Egypt's security agencies and according to one estimate has about "100,000 employees and at least as many informants".^[2]

The old Security Service has been described as "detested"^[2] and "widely hated",^[1] and following 2011 Egyptian revolution its headquarters was stormed by protesters who made off with records.^[1] The National Security Agency was "established" (according to at least one source it is simply the old State Security Investigations Service with a new name)^[2] after the 2013 revolution that ousted Morsi and installed General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.^[2] Nearly a hundred of the sacked senior officers of State Security Investigations Service were rehired.^[1]^[2]

Due to the wave of pro-military nationalism in Egypt and the agency's efforts to improve security during the Islamist unrest, the agency has gained much of the old Security Service's lost respect in Egypt according to Sarah El Deeb of the Associated Press.^[1] After announcing the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group due to the December 2013 Mansoura bombing, the agency assigned hotlines for the public to report suspected Muslim Brotherhood members, and was reportedly "reclaiming a major role" and rebuilding its network of informants that had been weakened during the Arab Spring^[1]

On the other hand, Declan Walsh of the New York Times states that after the agency was established, torture chambers were reopened.^[2]

Opposition leaders, fearing arrest, fled the country. Human rights monitors started to count the numbers of the ‘‘disappeared’’ — critics who vanished into state custody without arrest or trial — until the monitors, too, began to disappear.^[2]

El Deeb quotes a campaigner for reform of the security agencies, former police officer Mohammed Mahfouz, who complains that "no specific law regulates the agency's workings, making it largely unaccountable"; and another activist, Wael Abbas, who calls the NSA "a corrupt agency" that "has only changed names" and "is now more vicious than before."^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g El Deeb, Sarah (6 January 2014). "Hotline marks return of Egypt's security agency". Associated Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j WALSH, DECLAN (15 August 2017). "Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?". The New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

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Military intelligence	Algeria: DCSA Angola: SIM Australia: DIO Austria: HNaA Bangladesh: DGFI Belarus: GRU MO RB Belgium: ADIV/SGRS Brazil: DIE Canada: CFINTCOM China: CMC JSD Intelligence Bureau Congo (Democratic Republic of): DEMIAP Croatia: VSOA Cuba: DCIM Czech Republic: VZ Denmark: FE Egypt: DMISR Finland: PE TIEDOS France: DRM, DGSE Germany: MAD Ghana: MIU Hungary: KNBSZ Iran: General Staff, SAHEFAJA, SAHEFASA, SAHEFAVEDJA India: DMI, DIA Indonesia: BAIS TNI, Pusintelad Ireland: G2 Israel: Aman Italy: CII Japan: DIH Kazakhstan: NSC Lithuania: AOTD Malaysia: DIO Maldives: MNDF Morocco: DGED Myanmar: Sa Ya Pa Netherlands: MIVD New Zealand: DDIS Nigeria: DIA North Korea: RGB Republic of North Macedonia: MSSI Norway: E-tjenesten Pakistan: MI, NI, AI Philippines: ISAFP Poland: SKW, SWW Portugal: CISMIL Romania: DGIA Russia: GRU Saudi Arabia: AFISC Serbia: VBA, VOA Singapore: MIO Slovakia: VS Slovenia: OVS South Africa: SANDF-ID South Korea: DIA, DCC Spain: CIFAS Sri Lanka: DMI Sweden: MUST Switzerland: MND, LWND Syria: MI, AFID Taiwan: MIB Thailand: AFSC Turkey: GENKUR İ.D.B. Ukraine: HUR MO United Kingdom: DI United States: DIA ONI MIC USAFI Venezuela: DGCIM Vietnam: TC2
Signals intelligence	Australia: ASD Bangladesh: NTMC Brazil: 2ª Sch/EMD Canada: CSE China: SIGINT Croatia: OTC Ethiopia: INSA Finland: PVTIEDL France: DGSE, DRSD Germany: BND Ghana: RDU India: JCB, NTRO Indonesia: BSSN (id) Ireland: CIS Israel: 8200 Japan: DIH Kazakhstan: NSC Netherlands: NSO, JSCU New Zealand: GCSB North Korea: RGB Norway: NSM Pakistan: JSIB Poland: AW, ABW, SKW, SWW, NCBC, gOR 3.FO, CRiWWRE, 2.ORel, 6.ORel, JW NIL Romania: STS Russia: Spetssvyaz Saudi Arabia: PSS South Africa: SSA Spain: CCN Sweden: FRA Switzerland: NDB Syria: MI Turkey: MİT-SİB UAE: SIA Ukraine: Derzhspetszviazok United Kingdom: GCHQ United States: NSA
Imagery intelligence	Australia: AGO Finland: PVTIEDL India: DAI Indonesia: BIG Israel: Air Intelligence Group Malaysia: MaCGDI New Zealand: GEOINT NZ Poland: AW, SWW, ORO, 12.BBSP, JW NIL Pakistan: Air Intelligence Philippines: NMARSC Portugal: CIGeoE Russia: TsVTI GRU United Kingdom: DGIFC United States: NGA
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