Republic Intelligence Republic Intelligence was an espionage service of the Galactic Republic . During the Clone Wars , it conducted numerous operations to undermine the activities of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Description . Republic Intelligence operated as the primary intelligence - gathering and covert operations agency for the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars . Much of its ranks were recruited from former members of the Republic ' s Judicial Forces , including its elite direct action operative s who served as the Republic ' s premier non - clone special ops soldier s during the conflict . Although its members sometimes had little to no direct exposure to the Jedi General s , they routinely worked with strategists , fleet commander s , and other high - ranking officer s of the Grand Army of the Republic . Dodd Rancit was among the high - ranking officers of the group . History . Rancit organized several operations during the war , including overseeing Captain Berch Teller , who served as a Republic Intelligence station chief . After an attempted peace treaty between the Republic and the Separatists , Mina Bonteri , the originator of the bill , was killed . After her death , Count Dooku reported to the Galactic Senate that Bonteri had been killed in a Republic strike on the Separatist capital . Once the Senate had recessed , Senator Bail Organa told Senator Padmé Amidala and Onaconda Farr that Republic Intelligence had confirmed that agent s of Dooku had murdered Bonteri , making Dooku ' s statement a lie . In 21 BBY after the Second Battle of Geonosis , Separatist Council member Archduke Poggle the Lesser was captured . After his capture he was taken into custody by the Republic at the Republic Center for Military Operations . While under Republic custody , Poggle was frequently subjected to interrogation by Republic Intelligence and a specific focus of interrogation was the " Ultimate Weapon " concept . Republic Intelligence agents , including Teller , debriefed Captain Wilhuff Tarkin after his escape from the Citadel with the coordinates to the Nexus Route . Later , Teller , along with the subcontractor Knotts , worked with loyalist species whose planet s joined the Separatists , training them to serve as resistance fighters for the Republic . Among the targeted Separatist worlds was the Gotal moon of Antar 4 . In 20 BBY Republic Intelligence intercepted an encoded transmission from General Grievous . The Jedi Council conducted a small operation , utilizing D - Squad to retrieve an encryption module . Some Republic officers were thought to prefer Republic Intelligence direct action operatives to clone special forces such as ARC troopers and clone commando s . Has Obitt theorized this to be the case with Lieutenant Commander Orson Krennic , who handpicked a Republic Intelligence team led by Matese to work with during the mission to Merj . After the conclusion of the war and the transition into the Galactic Empire , Republic Intelligence was reorganized as Imperial Intelligence . Teller expected the Empire to spare his partisans from punishment due to their loyalist service during the conflict . However , forces under the command of Tarkin killed many of these fighters on Antar 4 along with former Separatists , in an event that became known as the Antar Atrocity . This angered Teller , causing his desertion and creation of his own resistance cell to fight against the Empire .