Information Office ( Hungarian'': Információs Hivatal'' ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, officially tasked with gathering and analyzing

national security National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and Defence (military), defence of a sovereign state, including its Citizenship, citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of ...

information from primarily abroad. Based on the Act on National Security Services, the Information Office continuously acquires, analyzes, evaluates and forwards information required for government decisions, related to foreign countries or of foreign origin, that can be used for the sake of the nation's security, which it makes available to the government at regular intervals. Furthermore, taking an active role in intelligence cooperation in the fight against

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

, the Information Office monitors connections between states and terrorist organizations, relations between intelligence services and terrorist organizations, extreme political-religious groups, and new methods used by terrorist organizations and efforts to produce chemical weapons in order to inform state decision-makers.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Informacios Hivatal Hungarian intelligence agencies Government agencies established in 1990 Intelligence analysis agencies