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FIRST INTERNATIONAL INTEL CHIEFS MEET

25th April, 2022 International Relations

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Context: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will lead discussions at India’s first conference of intelligence agency chiefs.

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  • The conference, modeled on the lines of the annual Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La dialogue.
  • It is expected to bring together heads and deputy heads of the top intelligence and security organizations from more than 20 countries and their allies.
  • Intelligence chiefs and deputies from Australia, Germany, Israel, Singapore, Japan and New Zealand are among those expected to attend the conference.
  • It is being organised by country’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) that reports to National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval.
  • The NSCS conference comes just before the MEA’s “flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics”, the Raisina dialogue, held annually since 2016.
  • Intention of the conference is to make “sustained” plan to make connections between the agencies.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/doval-to-lead-first-international-intel-chiefs-meet-in-delhi/article65349074.ece