Nicholas and Great British Secret Service (Pacifica)
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | September 9, 1919 |
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| Type | Intelligence agency, secret police |
| Jurisdiction | NGB Government |
| Headquarters | London |
| Motto | Loyalty to the Motherland |
| Employees | 420,000-550,000 |
The Nicholas and Great British Secret Service (NGBSS) is Nicholas and Great Britain's security agency. It carries out internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and secret police functions.
Creation
The Nicholas and Great British Secret Service was created as a new version of the previous Secret Service Bureau on 9th September 1919 to control secret intelligence operations in Nicholas and Great Britain and overseas. The NGBSS was originally part of the Armed Forces until seperating in 1982.
Structure and Organisation
Minister of the Secret Service
The Minister of the Secret Service is a minister in the NGB Government. Since 2009, the position has always been held by the Supreme Leader. The Minister of the Secret Service is responsible for overseeing the operations of the NGBSS and holds the highest authority within the agency.
Command Council
The NGBSS Command Council is a group of around 20 people. They do most of the overseeing of the secret service's most important operations. The council's members' identities are kept strictly confidential and are only referred to as 'CC' followed by a number (CC-01, CC-02 etc). There are no pictures of the members' faces accessible by the public or even most NGBSS personnel. All the members of the Command Council have never been in the same area as each other to avoid all the members being captured at once. They have the second highest authority in the NGBSS.
Council of Directors
The Council of Directors is a group of the directors of each department within the NGBSS. It is lead by the Chairman of the Council of Directors. The Council of Directors have control over each department within the secret service and are responsible for the decisions in the NGBSS that are not deemed important enough for the Command Council or the Minister of the Secret Service. Unlike the Command Council, members of the Council of Directors do not have their identities kept secret.
Departments
The Nicholas and Great British Secret Service is split into many departments.
- Foreign Intelligence Department (FID)
- Counter Intelligence Department (CID)
- Domestic Security Department (DSD)
- Special Operations Department (SOD)
- Logistics Department (LD)
- Scientific Research Department (SRD)
- Surveillance and Monitoring Department (SMD)
- Political Affairs Department (PAD)
- Engineering and Technical Department (ETD)
- Internal Security Department (ISD)
- Human Resources Department (HRD)
Operations
Infiltration
Full-time officers are posted to all major industrial plants (the extent of any surveillance largely depended on how valuable a product was to the economy) and one tenant in every apartment building was designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the police. Spies reported every relative or friend who stayed the night at another's apartment. Many houses apartments and hotel rooms have secret cameras that the NGBSS uses to watch over both citizens and any tourists. Schools, universities, and hospitals are extensively infiltrated, as are many other organisations. Informants were made to feel important, given material or social incentives, and were imbued with a sense of adventure. Nearly all informants were not coerced into cooperating. A large number of NGBSS informants are bus or train conductors, janitors, doctors, nurses and teaches. The NGBSS currently has over 800,000 informants.
Psychological Harassment
The NGBSS had decided that many methods of overt persecution, such as physical torture, were too crude and obvious. Such forms of oppression were drawing significant international condemnation. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. International condemnation could also be avoided. People who were judged to have displayed politically or culturally 'incorrect' attitudes often fell victim to this. Methods were often tailored based upon the target's psychology and life situation. Tactics employed usually involved the disruption of the victim's private or family life. This often included psychological attacks, such as breaking into their home and subtly manipulating the contents, in a form of gaslighting i.e. moving furniture around, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls, or replacing one variety of tea with another etc. Other practices included property damage, sabotage of cars, travel bans, career sabotage, administering purposely incorrect medical treatment, smear campaigns which could include sending falsified, compromising photos or documents to the victim's family, denunciation, provocation, psychological warfare, psychological subversion, wiretapping, bugging or mysterious phone calls. Increasing degrees of unemployment and social isolation could and frequently did occur due to the negative psychological, physical, and social ramifications of being targeted. Usually, victims had no idea that the NGBSS were responsible. Many thought that they were losing their minds, and mental breakdowns and suicide were sometimes the result.