Romania caught up with the American model on Friday and put its intelligence service under a unified command, since rivalries among the various services was not confined to the U.S. soil alone.
The Supreme Council for the Defense of the Country sSCDCt, headed by President Traian Basescu, decided to set up a National Intelligence Community sNCIt working under its command.
The NCI will coordinate the espionage, counter-intelligence, and military intelligence services, stated a press-release from the presidential office.
The chain of command will be the SCDC at the top, leading the NCI, in its turn led by a coordination committee on which will serve the heads of the espionage- and counter-intelligence services, the ministers of foreign affairs, of interior, of defense and of justice, and the national security advisers for the president and for the PM, respectively.
"The daily work of the NCI will be led by Gen. Constantin Degeratu, a state councilor in the Presidencyâs Department for National Security," stated Basescu for a television station Friday night. He showed that he and PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu get a summary of eight to nine most important pieces of information in the morning, which are last updated at 2 a.m. that day.
A new update of intelligence information takes place at 10 a.m., when specialists gather for their analysis, the president showed.
However, the top position at the helm of the NCI was not yet filled in.
The person, with the rank of presidential adviser, will be a politician, not a professional, Basescu said.
The last such presidential adviser was Vasile Blaga, who held the position for only a few days, moving then to lead the Ministry of Administration and Interior Affairs.
The next national security presidential adviser, and hence coordinator of the newly formed NCI, is alleged to be Claud
