Naicho

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Naichō (内調, an abbreviation for Naikaku Jōhō Chōsashitsu 内閣 情報 調査室, Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office) is the premier intelligence agency of Japan, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. The agency employs some eighty personnel, whose activities are kept extraordinarily secret. However, it is often criticised as being rather ineffectual, spending most of its energy translating foreign publications rather than gathering any substantial intelligence.

[edit] Spy scandal

On 17 January 2008, an official of Naichō was charged for spying for Russians, passing them classified information. The Russians denied the claim. [1]

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ AJapanese Faces Spy Charges. The Moscow Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-17.

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