Directorate of General Security

The Directorate of General Security (DGS) (Arabic: مديرية الأمن العام, romanized: Mudiria al-Amn al-‘Amm, lit. 'Public Security Directorate') also known as Internal State Security was the national civilian security agency of the Ba'athist Iraq tasked with advancing domestic security including clandestine and covert operations, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, counter-revolutionary, creation a domestic security network intelligence, executive protection (especially the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region high-ranking members, Prime Minister of Iraq, Revolutionary Command Council members, and Saddam Hussein and his family), intelligence assessment, protects classified domestic security information, psychological warfare, political warfare, support irregular warfare operations, surveillance and suppression those who disagree with the government, and threat assessment to domestic security.