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The intelligence gathered by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) is 45 percent collected form secret human sources, less than 20 percent from technical sources, 10 percent from cooperation and exchanges with other services and 25 percent from analysis and open sources, SRI Director George Maior told an activity report meeting on Wednesday.

At the same time, more than 40 percent of the intelligence gathered by the SRI has a mixed content, of both national security and of regional or worldwide implications.
‘First of all, we consolidated cooperation with intelligence beneficiaries and supported, through our analyses and prognoses, important decisions in the area of national security. Cooperation with the law enforcement bodies developed significantly.
The number of warnings issued by the SRI surged by almost 50 percent, which is a considerable effort in preventing and countering security risks and vulnerabilities,’ Maior pointed out.

The SRI is also said to have developed new intelligence capabilities in the CYBERINT area, technical expertise and also open sources. ‘These resources many be seemed niche resources, but they are fundamental in a century that is characterised by an extraordinary speed and abundance of information,’ said Maior. ‘Intelligence service depends on how we know to integrated increasingly more instruments to win knowledge,’ he added.

Maior said that 2009 was the year of international cooperation. ‘We really are today a prestigious international intelligence service which activity has been particularly commended by NATO and European Union officials. We adopted a multi-annual conception for our field and steered toward boosting the substance of our cooperation with Euro-Atlantic partners and toward contributing to multinational intelligence processes and initiatives,’ said Maior.

He added that SRI turns 20 in two days and that ‘this anniversary has a double significance, as it marks 20 years in business and turning away from the past with a generational replacement. Two thirds of the current SRI staff were aged below 18 at the December 1989 Revolution and the National Intelligence Agency is now considering young people born after 1989.’
The SRI chief also said that the SRI is ‘a strong, well-structured service that proved its political independence and neutrality in 2009,’ a fact that was also mentioned by President Traian Basescu, who attended the activity report meeting.