The General Intelligence and Security Service (GISS), known in Dutch as Algemene Dienst Inlichting en Veiligheid (ADIV), and in French as Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (SGR) is the Belgian military intelligence service under responsibility of the Minister of National Defense. There also exists in Belgium an intelligence service under the responsibility of the Minister of Justice, the Belgian State Security Service. Military intelligence (abbreviated MI, int. ... There are currently two intelligence services in Belgium. ...

The director of GISS is also called the Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence and Security (ACOS IS), which is part of the Defense Staff of the Belgian military.

The Service has four divisions, the Intelligence Division, the Security Division, the Security Intelligence Division, and the Support Division.

History

During the 1980s, a number of incidents including the Walloon Brabant supermarket killings, the activities of terrorist groups such as the Combatant Communist Cells and the neo-Nazi Westland New Post brought attention and criticism to the activities and ineffectiveness of the nation’s police and intelligence agencies. The Nijvel gang (Flemish: Bende van Nijvel) is the group thought to be responsible for the massacre of Brabant, a series of violent attacks that occurred in Brabant, Belgium from 1982 to 1985 and resulted in 29 deaths. ... Cellules Communistes Combattantes (CCC; Communist Combatant Cells) was a Belgian terrorist organization loosely committed to a left communist ideology. ... Westland New Post (WNP, also known as Westland National Socialistische Ordnung) was a Belgian neo-Nazi organization founded in March 1981 by Paul Latinus and members of the Front de la Jeunesse (FJ). ...

In 1991, following two government enquiries, a permanent parliamentary committee known as the Committee I was established to bring these agencies, not previously subject to any outside control, under the authority of Belgium’s federal parliament. Legislation governing the missions and methods of these agencies was put in place in 1998. Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

See also

• Gladio in Belgium

Emblem of Gladio, Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind paramilitary organizations. ...

External links

• Permanent Committee for the Control of Intelligence Services
• Belgium's Intelligence Community: new challenges and opportunitities