The Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (Arabic:المخابرات العامة المصرية) is an intelligence agency in Egypt. It is part of the Egyptian Intelligence Agencies Apparatus. An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ...

Refrences: 1-1973- Weopons and Diplomacy- Heikal, Mohammd Hassanien - Printed 1993 - Al Ahram- Egypt 2-Auto biography of Salah Nasr- Printed 1998- Dar Al Khayal - Egypt

The Egyptian General intelligence directorateEGID

History: the political decision to establish an advanced intelligence service in Egypt was taken by the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser ( 1918-1970), in 1955 Nasser assigned to his brother in Arm Zakareia Mohy El Dien (1918 - ) the task of establishing an intelligence aparatus to be responsible for the Egyptian National security.

However the real start of this aparatus took place in 1957 when Nasser assigned to this task a fellow officer who was Salah Nasr. Salah Nasr was the director of Egyptian General intelligence directorate form (1957- 1967) in that period he made the foundation of this vital department which all his successors used , Salah Nasr was the first to establish a seprate building for the EGID, he was the first to establish seprate divisions for Radio, Computer, Forgery and Dirty tricks.

For Long years the name of EGID director was a secret only known to high officials and government Newspepers cheif editors, However General Omar Soliman who became the DEGID since 1993 till taday (2007) was the first one the beak this role , his name was released many times in the press before he himself became a Known face in media after being envoyed by the Egyptian president Mubarak to Israel, USA and Ghaza in many occasions.

Majour Achievments:

In spite of the rule which says " success in intellignce world is a barried secret while faluire is a world wide scandal" EGID did achieve many successes which were released and dramatized in Egyptian TV and Cinema

1- EGID managed to plant Egyptian Agent among jewish imigrants to israel, that Agent " Refaat Al Gammal" manged to live 18 years in Israel without being discovered in those years he established a network of Spies in Various fields of Israeli community.

2- in 1970 EGID managed to hunt an Israeli Oil Rig while being shipped from Canada to Sinai, Clandestine EGID agents and frogmen succeeded in tracing the Oil Rig to Abedgan, Ghana and planeted sets of explosives, had them detonated and crippled the rig. this operation was published in 1985 under the name of ( Al -Haffar) it was supervised at that time by EGID director " Ameen Heweedy" (1921- )

3- between 1968 and 1972 EGID managed to infiltrate residence of American diplomatic delegation in Cairo and plant tape recodres (refer to referece 1)

4- perhaps the major success of EGID was haandling the Egyptian strategic deception plan the was carried out from 01/1970 to 10/1973 and aimed to conceal the Egyptian plans to launch massive millitary attack on 06/10/1973- the plan included planting falce information and hidden implied data in Egyptian president Sadat's speeches and newspapers Articles - For example the EGID prepared to the militay operations and evacutaed coplete sections of cairo hospitals to be ready for receiving war casualties, this evacuation that took place few days before the war started was done after declaring falce informaiton that those hospitals were infected with Titanus .

Cuurent Status:

desptie declared peace between EGYPT and Israel , every few years EGID declares arrest of Israeli espionage networks, yet till Israel has not declared arrest of any Egyptian spies on its soil.