The Security Commission Service

Otherwise unofficially known as SCS, because there are no other official names to Attland's intelligence and security agency. Unlike CIA, FBI, FSB, SDECE or KGB, the incognito agency has never been officially discussed. It does not have an address, a publicly known building, and nobody knows its governmental title. What is known and deduced is that it is a service of the Security Commission, an equivalent of the US National Security Council.

King Yarl must have created the service, because the Security Commission is one of the few government bodies that never undergone restructuring. Nobody knows most of its members. Chancellor Dolgrynd is known to have been the member, but only due to the released information that introduced him as the new chancellor with "plenty of experience in investigating irregularities in domestic and international finance."

SCS does not have uniforms, nor official service personnel with titles linking them to the SCS. Whenever a security-related arrest is made, the warrant language and the arresting police officers cite "acting under the authority of the National Security Law."
The headquarters, training and operations center are all based somewhere up north, and also very likely in the Maarheinigt's own private city.
SCS has been deduced to have strategically leaked major intelligence to the world press, thus waging the most efficient information war.
When Attland was almost in a cold war with France, SCS somehow got hold of compromising information that drove Pierre Beregovoy to suicide.

Using what must be a leading edge UCICS surveillance methods and nano-technology-based robotic bugs, SCS was capable of penetrating most sensitive offices of Russian, British, German, Israeli and other governments, and has used the information either to impart surprise leverage to Attland's foreign policy or to leak the information that causes damage from within a foreign power.

Often preserving the American Cooperation Treaty, SCS jealously protects or sides with US's national (read conservative) interests by offering free info or advance warning to the American security agencies when they could not otherwise detect the problem themselves. Just as in the Harold Nicholson father-son intelligence spy case.

A US Defense Intelligence Agency officer unofficially estimates that SCS provides the US intelligence community about 40% of tips, sources and other intelligence data.