Strategos Intelligence Council

The Strategos Intelligence Council commonly referred to simply as Strategos is a national-level intelligence agency under the Administratum of War. The Strategos is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). Its main purpose is the combining of information gathered across multiple departments of the imperial government and compiling comprehensive evaluations and reports on those threats which are then turned over to the general staff where suitable defense strategies and measures can be taken to address those threats.

Additionally the Strategos is tasked with safeguarding the Imperium's communication networks and other information systems. To achieve these goals the Strategos often engages in covert operations both internally and abroad.

History
The strategos was initially formed near the turn of the century, and was meant to intercept enemy wire cable transmissions and to develop systems both to adequately encrypt Imperial messages while establishing methods for the decryption of enemy transmissions. The Strategos was among the earliest institutions in the world to begin using and developing what would become modern computers.

Indeed the Strategos scope would expand to become the primary source of for the Imperial government and military with its primary focus being centered on finding methods to break the diplomatic codes used for communications by other nations.

Structure
The Strategos is broken up into sub sections known as directorates, each directorate is responsible for a specific task and often works independently within the scope of its assigned duties. The subordinate directorates then send all relevant information to a central analysis agency which analyzes the collected information and then issues threat assessment reports based on the information available.