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The federal intelligence service grows out of control. Research now shows that it has recently been monitoring an animal welfare organization that it classified as harmless a year ago.
New to the Secret Service Approach: Members of the Animal Welfare Organization 269 LA demonstrate in 2018 in Estavayer-le-lac.
Photo: Martial Trezzini (Cornerstone)
Your job is to go unnoticed, to be silent. The biggest expansion Swiss state security officials have seen since the end of the Cold War is also proceeding almost silently.
While the Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) still had 237 full-time positions in 2010, its staffing budget is now around 350. An increase of nearly 50 percent in ten years. If politics has its way, this expansion should accelerate now. The Federal Council intends to provide the FIS with another 60 employees by 2023.
Formally, the increase has yet to be approved in the budget discussion in parliament that begins Tuesday. But the finance commissions of both chambers have already backed the project. – that is, “unopposed,” as the National Council Commission calls it.
