Forsvarets Etterretningstjeneste

Armed Forces Intelligence Service (AFIS) is Baltic Union’s foreign intelligence service and military intelligence service.

AFIS collects, analyse, and disseminate information concerning conditions abroad which are of importance to Union’s security, and to the security of Baltic Union military units deployed on international missions. Intelligence activities include collection of information of political, financial, scientific, and military interest. It also includes international terrorism, extremists, international arms trafficking, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

AFIS collects information via “closed” and open sources. “Closed” sources include electronic intelligence (SIGINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), and bilateral co-operation with a wide range of other intelligence services. Open sources include newspapers, journals, TV, and the Internet.

Moreover, AFIS directs and control the military security, both for installations and units in Baltic Union and for units, ships and aircraft deployed on international missions abroad.