INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the essence of the activities of intelligence and security services, both military and civilian, with an emphasis on their presence, operations and execution of strategic, or rather the most complex, actions on the international stage. Therefore, the paper presents the modality of arriving at the concept of intelligence, its purpose, operational approach and functioning, and correlation with the international environment.The presence of an intelligence service internationally is almost always aimed at identifying security phenomena and security indicators, as well as potential threats to the national security of the home country, but also in the context of the security of international organizations in which intelligence officers or their agents are possibly positioned or embedded. Other activities of intelligence officers seconded to international organizations across the planet Earth were also listed, such as recognizing the intelligence activities of secret services of other countries and their orientation towards the home country, identifying the bearers of propaganda actions, as well as recording possible planners and executors of various types of special operations from abroad, and towards the home country with the aim of undermining the social order and carrying out classic attacks on that country. It is evident that intelligence activities do not stop with the end of hostilities, and in this context the establishment of military blocs is observed. A good example of this thesis is the period of the “Cold War” in which intelligence “games” continued warfare with the so-called “soft power”. There were numerous affairs with the application of technical measures, several exchanges of captured foreign intelligence officers, and as a culmination, the Cuban Missile Crisis. The intelligence communities of the great powers, often, carried out numerous special operations on the international level for the sake of state, higher interests. Many of these special operations were not at all pleasant for the establishment of the state on whose territory they were carried out (political assassinations), and they were even more complex for the target states themselves, in which special operations were directly carried out, such as organizing rebellions, coups, invasions, and the like. Such special operations were also called hybrid warfare, and they meant the implementation of special activities in the sense that animated groups in a given state were dissatisfied with the existing state system and with that help would try to gain political power in that victim state.

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