Federal Intelligence Organization chart

## **Federal Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Table of Organization**

* **Director's Staff (General of Intelligence John Collins, Director of Federal Intelligence Service and Commander, Federal Defense Intelligence Service (AKA J-2))**
* **Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service and Federal Defense Intelligence Service (Major General Mikhail Petrov, Director of the Intelligence Staff and Commander of Headquarters Operations)**

* **Bureau of Operations (Major General Sean Taylor, Bureau Chief)**
	+ **Surveillance Directorate (Director billet ranked as Commander, incumbent identity classified)**
	+ **Active Measures Directorate (Director billet ranked as Commander, incumbent identity classified)**
	+ **Counterintelligence Directorate (Director billet ranked as Commander, incumbent identity classified)**
	+ **Diplomatic Support Directorate (Director billet ranked as Commander, incumbent identity classified)**
	+ **Infiltration Directorate (Director billet ranked as Commander, incumbent identity classified)**

* **Imperial Section**
* **Alliance To Restore The Republic Section**
* **Unaffiliated Groups Section**
* **Business Entities Section**

* **Bureau of Intelligence**
	+ **Communications Office**
	+ **Signal Intelligence Directorate**
	+ **Technological Analysis Office**
	+ **Intelligence Analysis Directorate**
	+ **Open Source Directorate**
* **Bureau of Internal Security**
	+ **Internal Counterintelligence Directorate**
	+ **Internal Security Directorate**
* **Naval Intelligence Office (joint organization with the navy)**
* **Office of Special Acquisitions (Col. Vassa Hool)**
* **Office of Recruitment (joint organization with military personnel offices)**
	+ **Processing Division (POWs)**

## A narrative explanation

Some of these entries are obvious, but are explained for completeness.

### Director's Staff

The executive office of the Director of Federal Intelligence, who is also dual-hatted as the Commander of the Federal Defense Intelligence Service (otherwise known as J-2) for the duration of the present emergency. Contains: the Director/Commander (ranked as General of Intelligence), the Deputy Director/Executive Officer (Ranked as Lieutenant General), the Chief of Staff (a Commander), and the staff on Collins's personal staff, such as his security detail, the security detail for his XO, and a small number of officer and enlisted aides assigned to both of them (he doesn't normally stand on ceremony, but has come to accept that he needs the help to get stuff done, so while he has personal aides they are *vastly* fewer in number than would be expected galactically at his level - not to say he always does his own laundry or cooking, but it's not unheard of!). The General insists that nobody get too comfortable in a headquarters position (the proper place of intelligence personnel being, he believes, in positions that directly contribute to the common Federal effort to the maximum extent possible), so rotations among more junior personnel are common and a headquarters billet might only be slated to last 36 galactic standard months. Senior personnel, ranked Commander and higher, are more commonly in their posts permanently - the rapid expansion of the FIS and FDIS mean that there are virtually always vacancies to promote into, so while personnel policies *are* being drawn up, retiring incumbents that cannot or will not be promoted is not being contemplated yet.

### Headquarters Staff

This is the Headquarters of the FIS and FDIS, properly speaking. Day to day activity is under the command of Major General Mikhail Petrov, a Human around 60 standard years old who is commonly described (whether positively or pejoratively depends on whether he's trying to help your efforts or harm them) as an "administrative wizard" by awed observers.

The staff offices of the Headquarters are (the office directors all rank as Commanders if military or at equivalent civil service grades if civilian):

1. J-2-1, Personnel and Administration
2. J-2-2, Security and Counterintelligence
3. J-2-3, Operations
4. J-2-4, Logistics and Supply
5. J-2-5, Training and Recruitment
6. J-2-6, Signals, Communications, and IT
7. J-2-7, Resource Management (also includes Financial Management, the accountants)
8. J-2-8, Civil Affairs (handles relations with the legislature, the cabinet ministries, the media, etc)
9. J-2-9, Facilities Construction and Maintenance (manages all of Intel's planetside facilities in Federation territory, responsible for construction and maintenance)

### Bureau of Operations

The reason, in many ways, the Intelligence Services exist is the work of the Operations Bureau and its subordinate organizations. Commanded by Major General Sean Taylor, the bureau's sections are organized by functional directorate. Directorates which could use explanation:

#### Diplomatic Support Directorate

This directorate liases with the Ministry of State's diplomatic corps, providing intelligence resources for diplomatic efforts, counterintelligence support, and similar activities. It is rumored that if the Federation is declared publicly, intelligence attaches will be assigned to embassies through this directorate.

#### Surveillance Directorate

In spaceports and docking bays and along the spacelanes of the galaxy, there are many eyes and ears. Surveillance directorate deploys some of them, passive gatherers of intelligence who watch the galaxy around them as they proceed about their outwardly-unremarkable lives, and report what they learn through innocuous-seeming communications methods to the Federation. Frequently, this directorate is a first stop for Operations Bureau personnel after recruitment, "home side" training, and the creation of cover identities - best, it is reasoned, to spend some time establishing and living those cover identities in a passive fashion before the case officer (and their cover identity) assume a more active role in affairs.

#### Active Measures Directorate

Proudly known internally as "the Federation's stillettos", Active Measures Directorate undertake the more forceful tasks assigned to Federation intelligence services: Sabotage, assassination, commando actions that must be kept more covert than can be undertaken by military special operations units, and even operations that must be clandestine in nature (that is to say, where ideally it does not appear that anything out of the ordinary occurred at all) are all part of Active Measures's portfolio. When not deployed on operations, AMD personnel are training or engaging in activities to solidify their cover identities. (A good rule of thumb to figure out when an operation is better tasked to AMD or the military is, how much intelligence tradecraft is needed to execute all phases of the operation successfully? Military SOF can do covert operations, operations where the affiliation of the unit should be unknown to anyone else, but are less suited for clandestine actions.) What is not known widely is that AMD members are under regular medical and psychological evaluation - too often, General Collins and Admiral Kiner noted, the "hard beings" needed for such tasks were, or became, psychologically disordered either in the course of, or as a result of, such work in galactic history.

#### Counterintelligence Directorate

This directorate works with Federation civil and military law enforcement and security agencies to defend against operations aimed at intelligence gathering and espionage against the Federation, subversion, sabotage, or other intelligence activities. Internal Counterintel under the Counterintel Bureau, by contrast, guards against such threats by members of the FIS and J-2.

#### Infiltration Directorate

The classic spy in the enemy's camp, these case officers undertake missions to infiltrate adversary societies and organizations. (Ordinary case officers recruit foreign personnel to serve as Federation assets in place in their organizations, Infiltration directorate case officers cut out the middleman and *become* the asset in place.)