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The organisation of the BfV is not a secret

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The BfV responds to geo-political changes and to the security situation by taking the appropriate personnel and organisational measures. The terrorist acts committed by violent Islamist perpetrators have led to a new department being set up to counter Islamism and Islamist terrorism, and the acts of violence of the right-wing extremist National Socialist Underground (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund, NSU) have prompted the BfV to implement radical changes. Areas of work have been merged, in particular to bolster our department "Right-wing Extremism and Terrorism". There have been large investments in technological expertise, most of all in order to keep up with the extremists' use of modern means of communication, e.g. the Internet. The number of personnel has been flexibly adapted to the requirements.

The BfV's organisational structure is as follows:

Senior Management Chief Technology Officer Support Staff of the Senior Management
Department Z	Central Services
Department IT	Information Technology and Operational Intelligence Technology
Department S	Internal Security, Protective Security and Counter-sabotage, Supervisory and Advisory Quality Management, Internal Audit
Department O	Surveillance
Department C	Cyber Defence
Department 1	Specialized Support
Department 2	Right-wing Extremism/Terrorism
Department 3	Measures Pursuant to Article 10 of the Basic Law, Technical Information Collection
Department 4	Counterintelligence, Economic Security
Department 5	Extremism of Foreigners and Left-wing Extremism/Terrorism
Department 6	Islamist Extremism and Terrorism
AfV	Academy of the German Domestic Intelligence Services