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EU's Intelligence Centre (INTCEN): Overseas embassies to have new intelligence "security attaches"
08 February 2015
"the bulk of its work is based on classified briefs which it receives from around 10 member states’ national intelligence agencies. It also collates information from the EU’s overseas embassies, which are to have new security attaches, from the EU’s civilian and military crisis missions, and from the EU’s joint police and border control agencies - Europol and Frontex. It hoovers up open source information from the internet."
See the article:
No new mandate for EU intelligence centre (euobserver, link)
The
European External Action Service is responsible for running 139 EU Delegations and Offices operating around the world.
See also:
Statewatch Analysis: Secrecy reigns at the EU’s Intelligence Analysis Centre (pdf)