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| | Czech Republic - Intelligence |
 | | The mission of the Security Information Service (BIS), which was created as a state intelligence agency of the Czech Republic, is to protect national interests, democracy and freedom, and to defend individual citizens and the state vis-a-vis the most serious forms of crime. |
 | | The Security Information Service, whose existence is in the interest of the Czech Republic and its citizens, was set up as a secret service because only as such it can effectively fulfil the tasks defined for it by law. |
 | | Czechoslovak (Czech) Intelligence After the Cold War, by Oldrich Cerny, executive director of Forum 2000, Prague, Czech Republic, presented at a conference of the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces, October 2002. |
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