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Foreign Intelligence Service (Kazakhstan)

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Formed
  
2009

Foreign Intelligence Service (Kazakhstan)

Preceding agency
  
Brlau Department of the KNB

Minister responsible
  
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan

Agency executive
  
Amanzhol Zhankuliyev, Director

Website
  

The Kazakh Foreign Intelligence Service (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының «Сырбар» сыртқы барлау қызметі "Syrbar" syrtky barlau kyzmeti or just Syrbar) is Kazakhstan's primary external intelligence agency. The Syrbar is the successor of the Barlau Department in the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan since February 2009.

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Cooperation with foreign intelligence services

An agreement on intelligence cooperation between USA and Kazakhstan was signed in 2010. This secret treaty covers cooperation of the CIA with the Kazakh Intelligence Service.

Directors

  • Amanzhol Zhankuliyev (since February 2009)
  • References

    Foreign Intelligence Service (Kazakhstan) Wikipedia