Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment

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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 :

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.

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Notes

  1. Belgian Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee What is the Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment?. Accessed 12 March 2020.
  2. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION IN COUNTER-TERRORISM ISTANBUL, TURKEY24 –25 OCTOBER2013 CONTRIBUTION BY THE BELGIAN COORDINATION UNIT FOR THREAT ANALYSIS (CUTA).
  3. Radicalisation Awareness Network Clement Coltellaro. Accessed 12 March 2020.
  4. 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.
  5. Egmont Institute ‘Good Practices Exchange Forum: examining practices for countering violent extremism and building community resilience’ 10 November 2016.