Special intelligence unit to gather information of foreigners entering the country

A special joint intelligence unit has been established by the military intelligence unit and the police intelligence unit to gather information of foreigners entering the country from the Katunayake Airport.

It is learnt that the unit has been established after receiving information from the Indian and Thai intelligence services that the US intelligence service, CIA, was planning on sending several members to the country to monitor the general election process.

The task assigned to this special team is to follow and gather information of any suspicious foreigners entering the country. It is learnt that the unit has already inquired into several foreigners who have been staying in hotels around Colombo in the past few days.

Sources from the intelligence units say that such a team was not put in place even during the war against terrorism.

Veterans in the country’s defence establishment said that a similar operation was put in place first by the Russian KGB.