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ROMANIA THE ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE REPORT on the Activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service in 2007 1  TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I PRIORITIES FOR 2007 THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION-MODERNIZATION CHAPTER II PARAMETERS OF THE ACTIVITY II.1. Intelligence Activity II.2. Making use of intelligence II.2.1. Informing the decision makers II.2.2. Specific Prevention Measures II.2.3. Notifying law enforcement authorities II.3. Protection against Terrorist Risks and Threats II.4. Protection of Classified Information CHAPTER III INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION III.1. Inter-institutional Cooperation III.2. External Cooperation CHAPTER IV MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN AND MATERIAL RESOURCES IV.1. Human Resources IV.2. Financial and Logistic Resources CHAPTER V COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT OF THE ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE’ S ACTIVITY V.1. Strategic coordination of the activity by the Supreme Council for National Defence V.2. Democratic Oversight V.2.1. Parliamentary Oversight V.2.2. Legal Oversight V.2.3. Financial Oversight 2 CHAPTER VI RELATIONSHIP WITH CIVIL SOCIETY VI.1. Public and Media Relations VI.2. Education on Security and Relationship with Civil Society VI.3. Transfer of the Archives of Former “Securitate” CHAPTER VII PRIORITIES FOR 2008 3 CHAPTER I PRIORITIES FOR 2007 THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION-MODERNIZATION At the beginning of 2007, the Romanian Intelligence Service assumed three major objectives:  To increase its capacity of action for the prevention and counteraction of risks and threats to national security, as state at the border of the European Union and NATO;  To support the efforts of the institutions with attributions in achieving internal economical and social modernization objectives, and the external policy of Romania respectively;  the exercise of responsibilities in terms of efficiency derived from Romania’s membership to the European Union and implementation of performance standards applicable to the intelligence activity for the national security, within the EU/ Euro- Atlantic context. Beyond these strategic objectives, the main benchmark of the current activity was to insure a high quality intelligence final product, implicitly providing a real contribution to the efficiency of the decision making process. The complexity and the accelerated dynamics of the present security environment, as well as the new responsibilities of SRI as main security service of a NATO and EU member state highlighted the need to adapt the organizational structure and its internal processes to the new reality. The organizational diagnose performed at the end of the previous year allowed the identification of the main institutional transformation requirements and of some adequate solutions, on four main work lines:  Structure and functioning of the Service;  Internal normative framework;  Management of human, technical, material and financial resources;  Mechanisms to insure relationships at national level (with other institutions, with different bodies, as well as with the general public) and at external level as well. Based on the conclusions, “The SRI Strategic Perspective 2007-2010” has been elaborated, being approved by the Country’s Supreme Defense Council in June 2007 and which sets out the benchmarks of the institutional transformation and modernization process of the Service:  Structural flexibility and configuration of a slim organizational formula, fast adaptable to the evolutions of the security threats, including by simplifying the norms and internal regulations system;  Consolidation of HR professionalism by professional improvement activities and attracting external expertise;  Insuring operational, technical and logistical capabilities necessary for the achievement of the specific missions, by efficient valorization of the material and financial resources at the disposal of the Service; 4   Development of bi/ multilateral cooperation, of information exchanges and of common actions with national and international partners by capitalizing on the experience accumulated in the past years.  A better communication with the general public and the civil society. During 2007, the measures for his stage of the institutional transformation process have already been implemented, and consisted in:  Eliminating some incoherencies/ overlaps identified in the internal norms system;  Substantiating a new system of strategic and current planning of the Service, which insures a better correlation of the activities with the national security priorities;  Holding responsible of middle management by lowering the level of the decision and creating practical coordination and professional control tools;  optimizing the intra-institutional cooperation procedures and mechanisms (by re-configuring and boosting the communication flows), and the inter-institutional cooperation at national level and with foreign partners;  initiating an upgrading process of the communication technologies used in the Service. 5 CHAPTER II PARAMETERS OF THE ACTIVITY II.1. Intelligence Activity 2007 was marked by significant events for the national security. This required adapting the intelligence activity by putting into practice the measures necessary to ensure an appropriate reaction to the changes occurred in the security context. Thus, a planning system of requests was implemented in collecting and processing the information, focused on qualitative criteria. At the same time it was initiated the re- calibration of informative apparatus in line with the dynamics of risks and threats. The paradigm change of the intelligence processes makes difficult and unproductive a statistical analysis comparative to the previous years. But we can mention the following relevant aspects: Throughout 2007, the intelligence activity ensured the adequate sourcing of the analytical and operative flows, with an obvious reorientation of the share of the sources used – which capitalized in the increase of the percent of information obtained from human secret sources and from open sources and diminishing the ones obtained from technical sources. The distribution of intelligence obtained in 2007, related to the types of the informational resources exploited, was the following:  human secret sources - 59.19%  open sources and analytical products – 27.33%  technical secret sources – 13.48% The predominant reactive attitude turned into a pro-active approach of security challenges. The efforts aiming the identification and assessment of vulnerabilities and risks were doubled by actions designed to identify and capitalize on strategic opportunities both on the security internal component and on the dimension of the promotion of Romania’s interests at Euro-Atlantic and international level. The distribution of intelligence obtained in 2007, on national security domains was the following:  Vulnerabilities and risks to the internal dimension of national security – 51%: - Protection of constitutional rights and values – 38.32% - Vulnerabilities and risks to social stability – 26.90% - Protection of economical security interests – 34.78%  Protection and promotion of Romania’s security interests at international level – 49%: - Counter-espionage, support of interests of external policy and protection of classified information – 48.57% - Protection against terrorist threats – 25.38% - Assessment and management of other cross border threats – 26.05%. 6 II.2. Making use of intelligence II.2.1. Informing the Decision Factors The increase of quality and utility of intelligence obtained by the Service, including the consolidation of its contribution to the substantiation of the decision-making, represents one of the priorities of the institutional transformation and adaptation process. The analysis highlights a positive evolution of the consistency of the documents submitted to the decision makers at central and local level. The preoccupation for the quality of the final product of intelligence resulted in a better integration of the sources used, diversification of the types of information documents and in the optimization of the relationships and feed-back in relation to the central and local legal customers. In statistical terms, the Romanian Intelligence Service drafted, in 2007, 3710 documents, based on which the decision makers were remitted a number of 7761 reports as follows:  To decision makers at central level – 5454 reports;  To decision makers at local level – 2307 reports. The distribution of information documents on categories of legal customers – performed according to their areas of responsibility - was the following:  2956 (38.09%) were sent to the Prime Minister and to decision makers in ministries / governmental agencies, according to their legal attributions;  1744 (22.47%) were addressed to the President of Romania and other responsible within the Presidential Administration;  419 (5.40%) were transmitted to the Office for Integrated Information within the National Intelligence Community;  2307 (29.72%) were addressed to the local decision makers: 1880 to the prefects, 226 to the presidents of County Councils, and 201 to both categories of legal customers. The distribution of the reports addressed to the decision makers at central level according to the specific risks and threats was the following: a) On the internal dimension of the national security – 58.95% as follows:  Protection of economical security interests – 40.91%;  Protection of constitutional values and rights – 27.23%;  Risks to the social stability and risks manifested at local and regional level – 31.86%. b) On the dimension of protection and promotion of Romania’s security interests in international context and the management of risks and threats to the Euro-Atlantic community – 41.05% as follows :  Counterspy, support of interests of external policy and protection of classified information – 80.63%;  Identification and assessment of terrorist threats – 17.05%;  Assessment and management of other cross border threats – 2.32%. 7 From qualitative perspective, there was a change in the approach in the field of intelligence analysis – aimed at increasing the evaluative dimension of the reports sent to legal customers which translated into:  An increase in the percentage of complex reports (Evaluation, Informative Bulletin);  The diversification of the reports addressed to the Office for Integrated Information – O.I.I. within the National Community of Information – C.N.I. (Informative Bulletin);  Maintaining an adequate level of information at tactic level (over 50% of the documents are Special Notes, structured in line with the need to know and the attributions of the decision makers). The subjects of the reports addressed to legal customers at central level referred especially to:  The protection and promotion of security interests of Romania in relationship with other states, especially in the close neighborhood;  Evolutions relevant for the protection of economical security interests. The corruption phenomenon represented one of the priorities of SRI, confirmed also by the significant number of reports (569) sent to the legal customers.  Actions with risk potential in the terrorist field, given the presence in Romania of some communities of foreigners originating from areas marked by conflicts or with terrorist issues (including groups inclined to radicalization);  Promoters and revisionist and/ or separatist actions, mentioning that, in 2007, a decline in these evolutions was recorded compared to other “peak moments” in 2006. At the same time, a change of optics was initiated at the level of county sections which facilitated the improvement of the relationship with the local authorities. Given the attributions of this category of legal customers, most of the reports addressed (around 93.15%) were related to issues identified on the internal dimension of national security. From the point of view of legal customers’ reactions to the reports, around 91% of the 235 written reactions recorded in 2007 contain positive appreciations or measures/ requests for further dissemination. Statistically, the situation of the reactions in 2007 is the following:  Appreciation for documents’ quality and utility (40 reactions). It is worth mentioning the very good communication/ cooperation with a series of legal customers at central level – such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform, the President of the Court of Auditors, the President of the Authority for the State Assets, the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, as the reactions received confirmed the validity and utility of the information remitted by SRI. The reactions materialized in: - Controls or taking specific measures (27); 8  - Addressing requests/ resolutions to SRI (11), to continue/ further information (in 5 cases), requests of supplementary data (in two cases), as well as further dissemination of documents to other institutions authorized to take measures (in four cases); - The confirmation of the issues transmitted or addressing thanks (2).  Further dissemination of documents in order to take the necessary measures (171); - Incomplete appropriation of the aspects transmitted (17); - Ddding various comments/ opinions to some aspects from the documents received (7). II.2.2. Specific Prevention Measures In order to counter security risks and threats, the Romanian Intelligence Service conducted 6399 specific prevention measures, consisting in:  Determining people/ entities with preoccupations contrary to the national security to give up their plans;  Actions in the field of the protection of classified information;  Proposals to limit, interrupt, revoke the right to stay in the country of some people or declaring them as undesirable;  Warning, counter-intelligence and self-protection training of the persons targeted by different types of activities, including espionage. The distribution of prevention measures on areas of national security – determined by the characteristics of the types of risk – was the following:  47% developed on the internal dimension of national security, on:  Economic security – 33.54%;  Protection of constitutional values and rights – 38.52%;  Risks to social stability, mostly with local and regional manifestation – 27.94%;  53% were conducted on the external dimension of national security, out of which:  Counter-espionage, supporting interests of foreign policy and protection of classified information – 78.14%;  Identification and evaluation of terrorist threats – 14.03%  Evaluation and management of the cross border threats – 7.83%. II.2.3. Notifying the Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Bodies In 2007, the Romanian Intelligence Service sent to law enforcement authorities 643 notifications and reports:  4 to the General Attorney of Prosecutor’s Office by the High Court of Cassation and Justice;  218 to the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism within the Prosecutor’s Office by the High Court of Cassation and Justice; 9   185 to the National Directorate for Anticorruption;  5 to the prosecutor’s offices by the courts of appeal;  16 to the prosecutor’s offices by the court houses;  11 to the prosecutor’s offices by the court of justice;  204 to the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform (General Inspectorate of Romanian Police – 51, Country Inspectorates of Police – 77, Regional Centers of Investigating Organized Crime and Antidrug – 65, to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform – 11). The 643 notifications and information transmitted to the authorized bodies had as object the following categories of crimes:  3 crimes against the national security, stipulated in title I of the special part of the Penal Code, and actions against constitutional order (art. 1661 P.C.); diversion acts – art. 163 P.C.; disclosure of the secret jeopardizing the state security – art. 169 P.C.;  5 crimes to national security stipulated by art. 19 of the Law no. 51/ 1991 on the national security of Romania;  635 crimes related to corruption, economical and financial crimes and organized crime. A special attention was paid to the adequate documentation of the t