Context:
Amid global uncertainties, spy chiefs from across world converge in Delhi
Conference of Intelligence and Security Chiefs:
- High-level annual security dialogue conducted as part of the Raisina Dialogue
- 1st held in 2022.
- Modelled on – Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue.
- Purpose – Strategic platform for intelligence and security officials to address – emerging threats, collaborative security frameworks, and geopolitics and geo-strategies.
Raisina Dialogue:
- Annual multilateral conference held in New Delhi on geopolitics and geo-economics.
- Jointly organized by – Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
- Started in 2016
- Objective – Provide a platform for leaders, policymakers, academics, and practitioners to discuss global challenges and emerging trends.
- Participation – Includes heads of state, ministers, scholars, and industry experts from across the globe.
Five Eyes Alliance:
- Intelligence-sharing alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.
- Origin – Evolved during World War II from UK-US efforts to decode enemy communications.
- Based on the UKUSA Agreement (1946)
- Scope –
- Surveillance and global intelligence collection,
- Automatic data-sharing mechanisms,
- Integrated programs, staff, and analysis processes.
- Interception and decryption of global communications,
- Collaboration in intelligence operations among members.
Source: TH
Previous Year Question
From which one of the following did India buy the Barak anti-missile defence systems?
[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2008 Prelims]
(a) Israel
(b) France
(c) Russia
(d) USA
Answer: (a)