The General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia (GIA;
Mongolian language: Тагнуулын ерөнхий газар) is the intelligence agency of the
Mongolian government, under the direct control of the
Prime Minister of Mongolia. Its headquarters is in the Mongolian capital of
Ulaanbaatar. The GIA employs several hundreds of people and acts as an
early warning system to alert the Mongolian government of national security threats. It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare.
Naming lineage
Department of Homeland Security (1922-1933)
General Department of Homeland Security (1933-1936)
Ministry of the Interior (1936-1955)
Ministry of Military and Social Security (1955-1959)
Ministry of Social Security (1959-1990)
General Department of State Security (1990-1994)
Central Intelligence Agency (1994-1996)
Department of State Security (1996-2000)
General Intelligence Agency (since 2000)
History
GIA began as the Internal Security Directorate (дотоодыг хамгаалах газар), which was established in 1922 under the leadership of director Dashin Baldandorzh. In 1936, it was reorganized as the National Security Directorate and in 1959, the renamed to the Ministry of Public Security of the
Mongolian People's Republic. The Ministry of Public Security of the MPR was a catalyst for the republic's paramilitary forces, which totaled around 30,000 men by 1955.[1] The GIA was founded from the MPS after the
abolition of the socialist state in 1992.