The Swiss intelligence community is a group of agencies with responsibilities to protect the interests and infrastructure of Switzerland
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Since 1 January 2010, there is a new security policy instrument in Switzerland, the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) (German: Nachrichtendienst des Bundes NDB). The new service was created by merging the Service for Analysis and Prevention (DAP) with the Strategic Intelligence Service (SND). Through the use of synergies and consistent adjustment to the needs of the service recipients a powerful intelligence service was created which is adapted to meet modern requirements and which forms the future contact for all levels of the Confederation and the cantons.
The partners and service recipients of the FIS are the political and military leaders, the federal administration, in particular the departments:
Abroad the FIS maintains contacts to more than 100 intelligence, police and security services throughout the world. These bilateral and multilateral contacts have all been authorised by the Federal Council.
The legal foundations for the activities of the FIS and thus for its missions are according to the Federal Act on Responsibilities in the Area of the Civilian Intelligence Service (CISA)
And according to the Federal Act on Measures to Safeguard Internal Security (STA)
The thematic and geographic areas of interest' are:
The Swiss government produces an annual report:
The Military Intelligence Service (German: Militärischer Nachrichtendienst) is the military intelligence branch of the Armed Forces.
The Postal Service and Telecommunications Surveillance (German: Überwachung Post- und Fernmeldeverkehr) is a service within the Federal Department of Justice and Police (since 1 January 2008) charged with coordinating wiretapping requests of the criminal investigation authorities.