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The intelligence organisations made written submissions on their functions
and on the topics covered by our terms of reference. We also received the
operational policies of NIA, SASS and the NCC.
After the initial meetings the Commission wrote to several of the organisations
asking for further information and documentation. We had follow-up meetings
with NIA and the Inspector-General of Intelligence.
The Secretariat of the Commission, comprising staff from the Ministry for
Intelligence Services, wrote a memorandum on the role of the Ministry and
prepared a paper on international experience regarding intelligence reforms.
They gave us local and foreign court judgements, academic articles on
intelligence and numerous background documents.
1.5.6 Submissions from other bodies
In April 2007 the Commission placed adverts in the print media and on radio,
calling for submissions from the public. The Chairperson also wrote letters
inviting submissions from government departments, Chapter 9 institutions,
universities and non-governmental organisations.
We received twenty submissions from non-governmental organisations and
members of the public (Appendix B). Two of the submissions were from
former members of the intelligence services. A former head of one of the
services made an oral presentation to the Commission. In our assessment
there was not a sufficient number of high quality inputs from nongovernmental
organisations to warrant the public hearings we had planned to
convene and the hearings were cancelled.
Submissions were made by the Ministry of Public Service and Administration,
the National Treasury and the Office of the Auditor-General. We had
meetings with senior members of the National Treasury, an official in the
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