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.