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 separating 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, including the Chairman of the Council of Directors. They do most of the overseeing of the secret service's most important operations. The council members' identities are kept strictly confidential and are only referred to as 'CC', followed by a number (CC-01, CC-02 etc), except for the Chairman of the Council of Directors. 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 depends on how valuable a product is to the economy) and one tenant in almost every council apartment building is designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the police. Spies report every relative or friend that stays the night at another's apartment. Many houses, apartments and hotel rooms have secret cameras and audio recording devices 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 are made to feel important, given material or social incentives, and are imbued with a sense of adventure. Nearly all informants are 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 and arrest, were too crude and obvious. Such forms of oppression draw significant international condemnation. It was realised that psychological harassment is far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, are 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 are judged to have displayed politically or culturally 'incorrect' attitudes often fall victim to this. Methods are 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 include 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 can and frequently do occur due to the negative psychological, physical, and social ramifications of being targeted. Usually, victims have no idea that the NGBSS is responsible. Many think that they are losing their minds, and mental breakdowns and suicide are sometimes the result.
Counter Intelligence
Counter-intelligence in the NGBSS is handled by the Counter Intelligence Department. They are responsible for protecting the nation and the NGBSS from other rival intelligence services such as the Royal Aberstopian Intelligence Service (RAIS).
The NGBSS and the RAIS have had multiple encounters which range from sending spies to the other agency to special forces raids on each other's facilities and bases.
Domestic operations
The NGBSS has been involved in many operations in Nicholas and Great Britain.
Examples
- The NGBSS was instrumental in Nicholas McGregor's victory during the Third NGB Civil War.
- The NGBSS was responsible for poisoning Deputy Prime Minister Owen Walsh in an attempt to assassinate Gerald Fernsby.
- The NGBSS was responsible for the attempted assassination of Gerald Fernsby during Owen Walsh's funeral.
- The NGBSS threatened members of the House of Lords and the royal family in an attempt to get them to step down from power. This led to Second NGB Civil War.
- The NGBSS kidnapped and later executed Prince Richard, King William VI's eldest son.
- The NGBSS assassinated Andrew Stewart, the Chief Commissioner of the Police Force at the time. The NGBSS were never identified as the perpetrators. The Deputy Chief Commissioner, Miles McConnel, who secretly works for the NGBSS, replaced Stewart.
- The NGBSS assassinated the Minister of Propaganda after finding out he was secretly taking part in planning a revolution.
- The NGBSS assassinated Prince Edward, one of the few surviving members of the royal family at the time, whilst he attempted to escape the country in 2021.
International operations
The NGBSS has operatives in many other countries around the world and have taken part in multiple notable events in other countries.
Examples
- Former Prime Minister of Nicholas and Great Britain Gerald Fernsby was assassinated by a nerve agent whilst in New Mako City, Izaakia. New Mako Police identified the NGBSS as the perpetrators but the NGBSS agents managed to leave the country without getting caught.
- The NGBSS was responsible for the bombing of the Ministry of Defence building in Bamiers, Aberstopia.
- The NGBSS helped create and train Kalinskian secret police forces after Kalinskia's independence.
- The NGBSS was responsible for the bombing of two pubs in Bamiers, Aberstopia, killing 18 civilians and injuring 160.