| Тагнуулын ерөнхий газар ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤ᠋ᠨ ᠲᠠᠩᠨᠠᠭᠤᠯ ᠤ᠋ᠨ ᠶᠡᠷᠦᠩᢈᠡᠢ ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ | |
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 Headquarters of the GIA in Ulaanbaatar | |
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| Formed | July 3, 1922; 103 years ago (1922-07-03) |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Mongolia |
| Headquarters | Ulaanbaatar |
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| Website | Official website |
TheGeneral Intelligence Agency orGeneral Intelligence Directorate (GIA;Mongolian:ТЕГ, Тагнуулын ерөнхий газар,romanized: Tagnuulyn yurönkhii gazar) is the intelligence agency of theGovernment of Mongolia, under the direct control of thePrime Minister of Mongolia. Its headquarters is in the Mongolian capital ofUlaanbaatar. The GIA employs several hundred people and acts as anearly warning system to alert the Mongolian government of national security threats. It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration, and information warfare.
Founded in 1922 withSoviet assistance, Mongolian intelligence performed well against bothImperial Japanese andRepublican Chinese services during the 1930s and 1940s, while providing assistance to Soviet forces andMao Zedong'sChinese Communists. Later, after theSino-Soviet split and theCultural revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, Mongolian intelligence confronted Mao's intelligence agencies in close collaboration with the SovietKGB.[1][2]
The General Intelligence Agency began as the Directorate of Internal Security (Mongolian:Дотоодыг хамгаалах газар,romanized: Dotoodyg khamgaalakh gazar), which was established on 3 July 1922 under the leadership of director Dashin Baldandorzh with 14 employees for counterintelligence operations.[3] Despite the name "Internal Security", a "Foreign Department" was established within the Directorate in 1926, that sent agents to bothChina andJapan to gather intelligence, under Soviet tutelage.[4]
In 1933, it was reorganized as the General Directorate of Internal Security, and in 1936 as the General Directorate of State Security under the Ministry of the Interior, later the Ministry of Public Security of theMongolian People's Republic (Mongolian:БНМАУ-ын Нийгмийг аюулаас хамгаалах яам). The Ministry of Public Security was a catalyst for the republic's paramilitary forces, which totaled around 30,000 men by 1955.[5] The GIA was founded as a successor to the State Security Directorate after theabolition of the socialist state in 1992.
