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Special intelligence unit to gather information of foreigners entering the
country
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Colombo News Desk CND on 24 February, 2010 05:30:00
 
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.