Directorate General for Intelligence

The  (: Dirección General de Inteligencia, DGI) is the primary of Ventora. Formed in 1943, it is a major division of the departmental level Interior Commission. The Defense Commission also plays a role in the operations of the DGI. Its headquarters are in a building called The Panopticon (El Panóptico) located in the of Plenas. Maikel Nicolás Bilava Casalles has been the Director General since September 24, 2020.

History
DGI was formed on May 20, 1943 in response to the changing political and economic landscape that developed during the Second World War. The agency is the successor of the ad hoc War Intelligence Service formed by the War Staff during the war.

Organization
Two directorates facilitate operational and support aspects of DGI's activities in the performance of its intelligence tasks.
 * Secretariat for Intelligence (Secretaría de Inteligencia) &mdash;executive offices of the agency; sees to the guidance, direction, and management of DGI
 * State Intelligence Board (Junta Estatal de Inteligencia)
 * Defense Councillor
 * Foreign Councillor
 * Directorate for Operations (Dirección de Operaciones)
 * External Intelligence Bureau (Oficina de Inteligencia Externa) &mdash;collection of intelligence on political, economic, and other matters regarding foreign states and organisations
 * Green Section (Sección Verde) &mdash;Abayadi region
 * Blue Section (Sección Azul) &mdash;Alutran region
 * Yellow Section (Sección Amarilla) &mdash;Jimmadan-!East Asian region
 * Red Section (Sección Roja) &mdash;Vidinan region
 * Gray Section (Sección Gris) &mdash;Casalian-!East African region
 * Purple Section (Sección Morada) &mdash;Osamian-!North American region
 * White Section (Sección Blanco) &mdash;scientific and technological matters
 * Military Intelligence Bureau (Oficina de Inteligencia Militar)
 * Army Section (Sección Ejército)
 * Navy Section (Sección Marina)
 * Air Section (Sección Fuerza Aérea)
 * Internal Intelligence Bureau (Oficina de Inteligencia Interna)
 * Criminal Intelligence Section (Sección de Inteligencia Criminal)
 * Subversives Intelligence Section (Sección de Inteligencia Subversiva) [[Image:Erdfunkstelle Gran Canaria-2.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Severo Station, a signals collection facility]]
 * Signals Intelligence Bureau (Oficina de Inteligencia de Señales) &mdash;electronic intelligence collection, including interception of radio and other communications
 * Reconnaissance Intelligence Bureau (Officina de Inteligencia de Reconocimiento) &mdash;photographs and other intelligence gathered by reconnaissance balloons, satellites, aircraft, and drones
 * Counterintelligence Bureau (Oficina de Contrainteligencia) &mdash;interdicting foreign espionage efforts
 * Directorate of Support (Dirección de Apoyo)
 * Technical Services (Servicios Técnicos) &mdash;technical support, research and development of technological aids and devices
 * Communications Services (Servicios Comunicaciones) &mdash;secure telephony; radio transmissions; cryptography
 * Analytical Services (Servicios Analíticos) &mdash;analysis, interpretation, and development needed to turn raw data into actionable intelligence
 * Registry Services (Servicios Registro) &mdash;storage and accessibility of records, reports, and other agency documents
 * Enterprise Services (Servicios Empresariales)
 * Personnel Section (Sección de Personal) recruits, trains, pays, and manages records for all agency employees.
 * Administrative Section (Sección Administrativa) receives, disburses, and accounts for funds and manages all non-operational records.
 * Logistics Section (Sección de Logística) procures, stores, and distributes supplies; administers transport services; and manages and accounts for agency assets and properties.
 * Press Section (Sección de Prensa) interacts with the press and handles external requests for information.
 * Condottierre Services (Servicios Condottierre) &mdash;intelligence for sale in raw or processed form; intelligence services on contract; support for the agency's front organizations and companies
 * Special Operations Group (Grupo de Operaciones Especiales, GOE)

Equipment
In addition to a wide variety of specialized and technical equipment, much of which is classified, DGI has access to weapons and other types of military equipment. As part of the collaboration between the Interior and Defense Commissionss, DGI provides funding and technical staff for some of the Ventoran Navy's technical research ships. The agency also uses civilian equipment, such as vehicles, buildings, telephony, and the post.

Although balloons, long used to collect photographic intelligence and weather data, remain in service, their role is likely increasingly being handled by aircraft, drones, and satellites. DGI is known to use at least two different military-style unmanned aircraft for high altitude reconnaissance, communications, and signals monitoring and interception.

While there has been no official acknowledgement or denial, a so-called using the call sign ASE17 has been broadcasting on shortwave frequencies for decades. Aficionados believe the station has broadcast since around the time DGI was created. Today the station broadcasts on several high-frequency bands during the day, switching to lower frequencies at night for best propagation of transmissions. The station is generally silent, but at random times which vary by day of the month, it broadcasts its call sign followed by a series of digits in groups of five in interspeech. Sometimes the broadcasts are in instead of spoken. It has also been reported the broadcasts sometimes include data bursts in s or. Another communications method alleged to be used by DGI are groups on Sinapse for their anonymity, persistence, and ease of access without requiring attention at a specific time. In both cases, messages are likely encoded using s, making them virtually unbreakable.