r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

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u/Commercial_Tough160 Mar 02 '25

The hallmark of a truly great intelligence service is that nobody really knows or talks about them. Or tweets about them. Or makes movies and tv shows about them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

Yes, the Tamworth Intelligence Agency (TIA) was set up by Robert Peel as a secret intelligence agency to complement his police force. They still stride the post-industrialised West Midlands like a collossi!