Assertion: intelligence directorate | /r/HasProperty | stepping up its overseas activities
Facets:
value: by the end of the 1990s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: By the end of the 1990s, the Intelligence Directorate appeared to be stepping up its overseas activities, apparently having recovered from the shake-up in 1989, when, as occurred in the other bureaucratic entities under the Ministry of Interior's authority, a large number of the directorate's long-time personnel were fired or retired, and were replaced with military personnel.