UN Intellegence Office

WI at some point the members of the UN decided the organization needed an intellegence arm? It would be to gather information in the name of the General Secretary and allow a fact checking ability? Would this end in ruin? Create flaws for the UN? Or do nothing at all?
 
An intelligence service consisting completely of spies from various nations. Brilliant.

Though I'm sure this would make a nice channel for under the table deals between Intelligence branches.
 
An intelligence service consisting completely of spies from various nations. Brilliant.

Though I'm sure this would make a nice channel for under the table deals between Intelligence branches.

In anothr light think of Soviet spies under the UN banner allowed to look into Vietnam, or American spies having a legal reason to look inside of Cuba? After the missile crisis I recall Robert Kennedy spoke of how easier it would be to prove Cuba had nukes if the UN had the ability to check facts, instead of people having to side with one group of spies over another.
 
Not sure what that is really.Pretty much a group of people who are eyes on the ground when the UN needs them. Law enforcement, military, guys who...

Hmmm maybe SHIELD without the flying cars, terrorist groups, and military forces. Internationals spies.
 

FDW

Banned
Yeah, while that would sound nice, would said entrenched Intelligence Agencies tolerate something like this?
 
well, boys, a UN intel unit has been a proposed reform to the UN in many of the reports of the 1990s on the subject- esp for sitns such as Rwanda, where Gen Dallaire & UNAMIR could've been undoubtedly assisted with an inbuilt intel capability in 1993/94 to confirm the reports they'd been given re preparations for genocide...
 
This sounds a lot like the World Intelligence Network (W.I.N for short) from the Gerry Anderson series Joe 90 to me...
 

Sachyriel

Banned
If the UN had an intelligence arm wouldn't it be useless? You need years to develop a network, and with the UN's armed forces taking forever to get to conflicts that aren't exactly the 100-years war any network you set up would have to be in the right place at the right time to catch any of these situations.
 
There has been an Alistair Maclean novel series about UNACO, United Nations Anti-Crime Organization. Okay, not intelligence, strictly speaking, but their activities were a mixture of crime-fighting and counter-espionage, ranging from rescuing the US President from a sabotaged Air Force One to stopping an ex-KGB general from carrying out some <insert adjective here (choices are: diabolical, fiendish, and doomsday)> plan. The novels were adapted from some screenplays Maclean had written. At least one movie was made, and IIRC, it starred Pierce Brosnan in the lead role.

There's also a movie series called Art of War about an intelligence agent of the UN. It starred Wesley Snipes in the first two installments.
 
The movie in question was called "Detonator", and it also starred Patrick Stewart. It involved a German scientist building a nuclear weapon, and anAmerican terrorist and Russian general were involved. The weapon wound up on a train that wound up in the former Yugoslavia (which is where it was filmed...)

IRL, the UN does need some form of intelligence arm, especially after Katherine Gun's revelations of spying on UN members...and the implied information that it wasn't just the US and UK (or the rest of the UKUSA network) spying...
 
Instead of setting up the weapons inspectors post the Gulf war, have them investigate all legitimite worries the international community may have with Iraq. (human rights abuses, WMDs, potential supprise attacks, support of terrorists...)
 
UNCOK

well, lookin at a successful example of UN intel, UNCOK did a damn fine job in 1950 prior to the NK invasion of ROK- the 2 Australian UNMOs esp were able to provide detailed confirmation at the border that the NKs had in fact invaded the South, as opposed to some mutual skirmish, which created the groundswell in the UN in favour of declaring an act of aggression which necessitated & authorised all necessary means to support ROK. WI such an intel capability had somehow been retained by the UN afterwards in subsequent ops ?
 
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