Меню
Intelligence activities
The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan is an authorized body in the field of foreign intelligence.
This is a system of overt and covert intelligence, organizational and managerial measures carried out in accordance with the legislation on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and abroad by obtaining, processing and using intelligence information, as well as facilitating the implementation of measures taken by the state in the interests of ensuring the national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Intelligence missions:
1) providing the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Government and state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan with intelligence information and analytical assessments necessary for making decisions in political, financial and economic, military and political, scientific and technical, humanitarian, environmental and other areas affecting the national interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
2) participation in the development and implementation of state policy in the field of national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
3) assistance to economic development, scientific and technological progress of the country, military and technical security of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
4) obtaining intelligence information and implementing measures aimed at preventing real and potential damage to the national interests and security of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the special services and organizations of foreign states, terrorist and extremist organizations, criminal communities (criminal organizations), as well as individuals;
5) other tasks determined by the laws and acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Counterintelligence activities
This is a system of counterintelligence and organizational measures carried out by special state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan to protect the national interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan from intelligence and subversive activities.
Counterintelligence tasks:
1) protection against intelligence and subversive activities:
- the foundations of the constitutional system, state sovereignty, territorial integrity, economic, scientific and technical, as well as defense potential of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other protected persons;
- information constituting state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
2) prevention, identification and suppression of intelligence and (or) subversive actions, including those related to:
- the implementation of terrorism and extremism;
- the creation and activity of criminal groups;
- illegal trafficking in weapons, ammunition, explosives, radioactive substances and nuclear materials;
- illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors;
3) counterintelligence support of state bodies, state legal entities, subjects of the quasi-state sector, strategic and other objects of the Republic of Kazakhstan that are of great state importance;
4) assistance to state bodies in the prevention, neutralization of threats to national security and promotion of the national interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The tasks of counterintelligence activities may be supplemented by laws and acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
