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Encyclopedia > Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad

Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) is the Security Service of Colombia. DAS in addition has the purposes of immigration control encluding issuing visas. Article 38 of Decree 218 from 2000 states that all employees of DAS have the function of intelligence agents. DAS works with the DEA, an american agency against drugs. DAS currently is working against drug industry-related guerillas in Colombia. An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptoanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ... DEA is an abbreviation of the following, among others: Data Encryption Algorithm Dance Educators of America (USA) Davis Education Association (USA) Drug Enforcement Administration (USA) Diplôme détudes approfondies, a former French graduate degree Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft (Germany) Directorate of Environmental Affairs (Namibia) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational...



German web link (http://www.humanrights.de/doc_de/archiv/c/colombia/comuneroDe.htm)


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