Federal Intelligence Agency

The Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the Ironcastle Department of Defence, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The FIA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The FIA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems. The FIA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.

Originating as a unit to decipher coded communications in the Second Great War, it was officially formed as the FIA in 1950. Since then, it has become one of the largest Ironian intelligence organisations in terms of personnel and budget. The FIA currently conducts worldwide mass data collection and has been known to physically bug electronic systems as one method to this end. The FIA, alongside the ISA, maintain a physical presence in many countries across the globe; the ISA/FIA joint Special Collection Service (a highly classified intelligence team) inserts eavesdropping devices in high value targets (such as Presidential palaces or embassies). SCS collection tactics allegedly encompass "close surveillance, burglary, wiretapping, [and] breaking and entering".

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