3PY

The Syldavian Intelligence Agency (3PY) is a central intelligence agency of the Syldavian government, reporting to the Minister of Defense, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior Syldavia policymakers. 3PY also engages in covert activities at the request of the President of Syldavia.

The primary function of 3PY is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers. The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through its Special Activities Division.

Today, 3PY still has a number of functions in common with other countries' intelligence agencies (see Relationships with foreign intelligence agencies). 3PY's headquarters is in Spordj, Klow, a few kilometers north of Klow, Klow along the Khanka Lake.

Fondation
3PY was a joint initiative of the Admiralty and the War Office to control secret intelligence operations in the Syldavia and overseas, particularly concentrating on the activities of Chinese and Japanese Governments. The bureau was split into naval and army sections which, over time, specialised in foreign espionage and internal counter-espionage activities respectively. This specialisation was because the Admiralty wanted to know the maritime strength of the Imperial Japan Navy. This specialisation was formalised before 1914. When the First World War started, the two sections underwent administrative changes so that the foreign section became 3PY.

World War I
The service's performance during First World War was mixed, because it was unable to establish a network in Europe itself. The majority of its results came from military and commercial intelligence collected through networks in neutral countries, occupied territories, and through Russia.

September 10th, 2011 Attack


The September 10th, 2011 attack occurred in Morka, Sakhalin where a nuclear bomb exploded and destroyed the city entirely. The causes of the explosion is still unknown but the 3PY forces are working to find out the responsible.

Espionage
According to former 3PY Colonel Stanislav Pilskaia, 3PY is operating against the U.S. in a much more active manner than they were during even the hottest days of the Cold War. 3PY espionage is still very unknown by the World. It is one of the most secret agency.

Assassinations abroad
During the Cold War, 3PY handled covert political assassinations abroad. These activities reportedly continue. It was reported that in September 1997, an 3PY agent in New York City was making preparations to assassinate Okatabawashian politician Shu Lin Pao but he was arrested by the FBI and interrogated by CIA. He never revealed his identity nor that he was a 3PY agent but the CIA agents found his passports and identification and knew he was Syldavian with a "special government passport". The 3PY agent killed himself in jail a few months after the events.

Shu Lin Pao was assissinated in Okatabawashi City 2 weeks after the New York City incident. The murderer is still unknown.

Relationship with other sources of intelligence
Many intelligence services cooperate. There may even be a deniable communications channel with ostensibly hostile nations.

The role and functions of 3PY are roughly equivalent to those of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Central Intelligence Agency of the United-States of America (CIA), the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (the SIS or MI6), the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) (SVR), the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the French foreign intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) and Israel's Mossad.

3PY cooperated recently with the OQJ about the September 10th, 2011 Attack.