DIRECTOR

With Decree No.27/25.01.2012 of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria,
and with the order of the Minister of Defence as a NIS Acting Director
was appointed and awarded with the senior military rank of
a Brigadier General Colonel Dragomir Zdravkov Dimitrov
 MAIN TASKS
  NIS holds a key position within the system of institutions related to the national security of the Republic of Bulgaria.
  Through its co-operation with the other national security services and the Armed Forces, the NIS ensures the national security and the sovereignty of the Republic of Bulgaria and provides the state government with impartial foreign and economic intelligence reports.
  One of the main NIS priorities, carried out in close collaboration with the foreign intelligence services, is the fight against terrorism, radical fundamentalism, organized crime, drug traffic ...
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 HISTORY
 PHOTO GALLERY
  The Bulgarian Foreign Intelligence was established on 23.05.1947 and functioned till the end of 1989 as a structure to the Ministry of Interior.
  With State Council Decree No.152/05.02.1990 was established the National Intelligence Service to work under the authority the State Council of the National Republic of Bulgaria. Under this Decree the state foreign intelligence was assigned to the newly established separate institution.
  The Act on amending and supplementing the Republic of Bulgaria Defence and Armed Forces Act, promulgated – SG No.40/2002 and effective 19.04.2002, regulates the NIS status as a non military unit and in the transitional and final provisions to this Act it is set that the service should implement the Republic of Bulgaria...
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