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The Greek Intelligence Service and Post-9/11 Challenges
by JOHN M. NOMIKOS -- abstract

Today, in the current “information age,” we are constantly bombarded by facts, opinions, speculations, rumor, and gossip from every direction. As the Intelligence Community inexorably works its way into the twenty-first century, it faces an unprecedented array of challenge. The chaotic global environment of the post-Cold War era offers a wide array of different issues to be understood and a variety of new threats to be anticipated.
Greece's position as an industrialized nation and active member of the European Union as well as NATO calls for a higher level of management efficiency and effectiveness to create a Greek Intelligence Community that can master the challenges. This article points out the new responsibilities that the Greek Intelligence Service (NIS-EYP) had to shoulder in the last decade because of the current reform strategy which introduced several fundamental innovations. It also concentrates on the development of post-9/11 Cold War challenges and how NIS-EYP could respond to the new threats in the coming decades.