Advenarum

The Advenarum (Caphiric Latin: Advenarum Administratio) is one of the two civilian foreign intelligence agencies of the Imperium of Caphiria. The Advenarum is part of the Department of Civilian Intelligence (DCI), the collection of intelligence agencies that operate outside of the military and report directly to the Imperator and the Caetus Legati.

The Advenarum is tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world and is primarily focused on providing national security information for the Imperator. The Advenarum has many unique characteristics; it has no domestic law enforcement function, is primarily focused on overseas intelligence gathering, and is the only agency within the Caphirian government authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the Imperator with carte blanche discretionary power. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as Task Force VII and Division DCCLXXVII.

The Advenarum has also provided support to many foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training on torture, technical support, and was involved in several regime changes, terrorist attacks and planned assassinations of foreign leaders. Starting during the height of the Cold War, the Advenarum has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. In 2011, the Advenarum began a partnership with Quicksilver Industries to create a highly secretive task force known as the Octoriantes, whose main function is for the "coordination, deconfliction, and evaluation of clandestine operations".

The Advenarum has been the subject of many controversies, including human rights violations, domestic wiretapping and propaganda, allegations of drug trafficking, and alleged complicity in acts of torture and extraordinary rendition.

Purpose
The Advenarum has five purposes outlined in the DCI bylaws: In addition, the Advenarum maintains an internal and public list of "tasks of national security importance". The public tasks include researching and developing all the necessary information to defend the independence, integrity and security of Caphiria from threats from abroad, including in the implementation of international agreements. The Advenarum also performs activities in the field of counter-proliferation of nuclear materials or materials found to be strategic, and information activities for security outside Caphirian territory, to protect Caphirian political, military, economic, scientific, and industrial interests, as well as detecting outside the national territory espionage activities directed against Caphiria and activities aimed at damaging national interests.
 * Counterterrorism
 * Nonproliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
 * Warning/informing American leaders of important overseas events
 * Counterintelligence
 * Cyber intelligence

Organizational structure
The Advenarum is divided into an executive office with 5 primary directorates, which are split into divisions with a broad directive and each division is given a specific task. The 5 directorates are:
 * The Digital Directorate
 * The Tactical Directorate
 * The Science & Technology Directorate
 * The Support Directorate
 * The Analysis Directorate

Executive Directorate
Overseeing the Advenarum and in charge of day-to-day operations is the Executive Director, who is appointed by the Imperator with Senate confirmation. The Executive Director reports to the DCI Director (who along with the INS Director report directly to the Imperator). The Deputy Director is formally appointed by the Executive Director without Senate confirmation and is generally considered a political position, making the Deputy Director the most senior position for career officers.

The Executive Directorate also supports the Caphirian military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperates with field activities. Each branch of the military service has its own Deputy Director. The Deputy Director of military affairs, a senior military officer, manages the relationship between the Advenarum and the Unified Tactical Commands, who produce and deliver to the Advenarum regional/operational intelligence and consume national intelligence produced by the Advenarum.

Analysis Directorate
The Analysis Directorate is tasked with helping "the Imperator and other policymakers make informed decisions about our country's national security" by looking "at all the available information on an issue and organizing it for policymakers". The Directorate has four regional analytic groups, six groups for transnational issues, and three that focus on policy, collection, and staff support.

Tactical Directorate
Despite being part of the Department of Civilian Intelligence, the Advenarum has a fifth "restricted" directorate that is used for covert paramilitary operations at the sole discretion of the Imperator, the Tactical Directorate. The Tactical Directorate has only two components: Task Force VII and Division DCCLXXVII.

Task Force VII is a joint operation between the Imperial Legion and the Department of Civilian Intelligence and conducts various specialized missions such as counterterrorism, hostage rescue, special reconnaissance, and direct action (short-duration strikes or small-scale offensive actions), often against high-value targets.

Division DCCLXXVII

Science & Technology Directorate
The Science & Technology Directorate (DS&T) was established to research, create, and manage technical collection disciplines and equipment. Many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. DS&T plays a special role in the Advenarum since it provides a wide range of data and intelligence to all other directorates. From here, the various other directorates are able to take this information, analyze it, and effectively procure it to their needs.

DS&T has morphed into a vastly elaborate directorate since its original inception in 1941, primarily due to the increasing data dependency many countries have used since the Great War. The volume of intelligence that is sifted through in order to find what is needed, can be quite cumbersome. To help with this data overload, DS&T has rapidly grown within the intelligence community.

The Science & Technology Directorate is organized to accommodate classified personnel based on their technical strengths. Depending on their background and area of expertise, DS&T has: While the organizational structure of DS&T is structured around an expertise agenda, meaning employees are placed into one of the four departments based on their previous knowledge and future aspirations, this directorate can be more easily understood by dividing it into two functionalities. The first is the processing and analysis of collected information, and the second is the future advances and innovations in technology.
 * Operations Tradecraft: Create solutions to current technical problems using existing tools and designs
 * Technical Research: Researching to find solutions to existing problems by means of theoretical analysis
 * Technical Development: Ensuring current projects and intelligence officers are correctly managed through analysis
 * Technical Analysis: Conducting "all-source analysis" to reduce the possibility of security faults, especially for the on-ground intelligence officers

Support Directorate
The Support Directorate provides necessary "housekeeping" administration functions but in a manner consistent with the need to keep their details protected. These functions include personnel, security, communications, and financial operations. Most of this Directorate is sub-structured into smaller divisions based on role and purpose, such as the Security Division, which is concerned both with personnel and physical security. Other major divisions include the Division of Communications and the Division of Information Technology.

Originally, the Advenarum was made responsible not just for covert action during the cold war, but for such action during major wars. As a result, it became necessary to establish logistical support for these operations before the start of a conflict but politicians did not want to duplicate existing military support systems. The compromise was that the Advenarum should be able to draw, on a reimbursable basis, on military supply stocks. This evolved into the modern worldwide system of support bases, which usually could be tenant organizations on military bases.