'The secret services have been and remain the key link in the system ensuring security and sovereignty."
Security service personnel are responsible for preventing internal and external threats, as well as for "the whole range of issues which are brought together by one single notion - "the national interest."
Security service work "requires not only the procurement of knowledge in depth, but also great patience and personal courage...and these must be the characteristic features of security service personnel at all times,"
Recently, the state has made a number of moves to strengthen its security services. Their level of logistical support has been much increased, as has their operational and analytical potential.
"However, the modern world is ever-changing, with increasing competition in economic markets, and for domination in the spheres of knowledge and information. The stakes in this struggle are very high, and competition gets increasingly tough year in, year out.
"The global challenges we face set new and difficult tasks; and require the directed, coordinated and effective work of all of the secret services.
"Of course the war against terror, the containment of any manifestation of national and religious strife and extremism, and the active development of the border control infrastructure, remain among the priorities. [He means major regime goals, ed.].
"It is necessary, as well, to engage in long term, analytical surveillance, while ensuring the secrecy and security of secret service undertakings and activities,.."
Advanced technology and the modernisation of our economy demand higher security requirements for the "protection of our strategic, critical technologies and the steady development of science-intensive economic sectors."
Furthermore, given the state of world tension, every part of the secret services must effectively forecast and "calculate the possible consequences, of ongoing events for many moves ahead."
In practice, the secret services must be the protectors of the national interest, and of the rights and freedoms of citizens.
"They must be strong, and therefore they must be modern. They must be effective, professionally trained, and technologically equipped,".
He stressed that those serving with the security services must be well-paid, and provided with extensive benefits and protected, high-value pensions.
"We will be working to ensure this," he promised.
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Too professional for this to be Gordon Brown - an amateur at this kind of game. Who is he/she?
You're right, C. England has only a 12-year record in this kind of behaviour, although there is an enthusiasm for learning by doing on the part of New Labour New Dawn that chills.
This Leader enjoys historical precedent and procedural experience going back, oooh, a couple of centuries under various sets of initials.
All the times in which the people of England were setting up civil freedoms and pluralist democracy, the means and manner of subjugation and control of a society, so that it was reduced to merely a population, were being refined in other jurisdictions.
And now the authoritarian command and control structures are installed in our own society; but then, many of the junta who hold unelected power over us are, since their political youth, the tutees of these masters.
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