FIRST INTERNATIONAL INTEL CHIEFS MEET
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Context: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will lead discussions at India’s first conference of intelligence agency chiefs.
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- The conference, modeled on the lines of the annual Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La dialogue.
- It is expected to bring together heads and deputy heads of the top intelligence and security organizations from more than 20 countries and their allies.
- Intelligence chiefs and deputies from Australia, Germany, Israel, Singapore, Japan and New Zealand are among those expected to attend the conference.
- It is being organised by country’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) that reports to National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval.
- The NSCS conference comes just before the MEA’s “flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics”, the Raisina dialogue, held annually since 2016.
- Intention of the conference is to make “sustained” plan to make connections between the agencies.