Department of Military Intelligence
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The AFFS' main intelligence agency, the DMI is responsible for gathering knowledge about enemies and potential enemies of the Federated Suns any way possible and, as a secondary duty, defeat or confuse enemy intelligence operations via sabotage, misinformation, or other means.
DMI consists of seven divisions in 3025:
MI1: Command
MI2: Analysis and Speculation
MI3: Electronic Information Gathering
MI4: Covert Operations Division (the "Stealthy Foxes")
MI5: Counter-Insurgency
MI6: Special Forces (the "Rabid Foxes", equivalent to LIC's Loki or the ISF's DEST teams)
MI7: MIIO Liaison - As the activities of the Ministry of Information, Intelligence, and Operations and DMI frequently overlap, members of this division work to prevent duplication of effort or one agency's operation interfering with another.
The separation of intelligence gathering efforts into a military focused organization (DMI) and a civilian-led organization (MIIO) allows the DMI to focus primarily on military related matters, while the MIIO considers nearly everything else. In addition, the fact that there are two "competing" agencies producing the same product insures that the AFFS High Command gets relevant and accurate data.