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State Intelligence Service (Sri Lanka)

Intelligence agency of the Sri Lankan government

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The State Intelligence Service (SIS) is an intelligence agency of the Sri Lankan government. It is the primary civilian intelligence agency of Sri Lanka and is responsible for both internal and external intelligence-gathering. It comes under the purview of the Ministry of Defence. The agency was originally named the National Intelligence Bureau.

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“State Intelligence Service (Sri Lanka)” enters the record as intelligence agency of the Sri Lankan government. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what State, Intelligence and Service can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around State, Intelligence and Service.
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“State Intelligence Service (Sri Lanka)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, State, Intelligence and Service provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “State Intelligence Service (Sri Lanka)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.