Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment
The Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment is a Belgian intelligence organisation based in the Federal Public Service Interior (formerly the Ministry of the Interior) (Dutch: FOD Binnenlandse Zaken, French: SPF Intérieur).
According to the website of the Belgian Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee:
- The Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment, or CUTA, has been operational since 1 December 2006 (rue de la Loi, 22 à 1000 Brussels). This unit, which replaces the Mixed Anti-Terrorism Group (AtG), draws up specific or strategic evaluations of terrorist and extremist threats in and to Belgium.
- It largely proceeds on the basis of intelligence obtained from the supporting services, namely :
- State Security
- The General Intelligence and Security Service
- The federal and local police
- The Department of Customs and Excise of the FPS Finance
- The Department of Federal Immigration of the FPS Interior
- The FPS Mobility and Transport
- The FPS Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation[1]
SSCAT/ESCN
The CUTA works closely with the UK intelligence unit RICU in running the European Strategic Communications Network (formerly SSCAT) an EU funded deceptive communications operation.
People
- Gert Vercauteren Head of the Analysis Department[2]
- Clement Coltellaro Federal Public Service Interior - Coordination Unit for the Threat Analysis (CUTA) Belgium. Listed as affiliated with the ESCN.[3]
- An Michiels listed as a member of CUTA[4] and of ESCN[5]
Notes
- ↑ Belgian Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee What is the Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment?. Accessed 12 March 2020.
- ↑ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION IN COUNTER-TERRORISM ISTANBUL, TURKEY24 –25 OCTOBER2013 CONTRIBUTION BY THE BELGIAN COORDINATION UNIT FOR THREAT ANALYSIS (CUTA).
- ↑ Radicalisation Awareness Network Clement Coltellaro. Accessed 12 March 2020.
- ↑ Francesco Antonelli (Ed)'The Present And The Future Of Violent Radicalisation In Europe: An integrated research involving civil experts and law enforcement agency members’' Working Papers in Terrorism Studies October 2019, Rome: Roma Tre Press, p. 20.
- ↑ Egmont Institute ‘Good Practices Exchange Forum: examining practices for countering violent extremism and building community resilience’ 10 November 2016.
