For example, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade in India is currently implementing a barcode-based 'track and trace' system, to help prevent the export of substandard drugs 164, 165.
However, spending difficulties due to weakness in financial management and to conflicting interests between the MOH directorates made the contracting of foreign specialists a rather troubled matter in the last years.
Mr. Warnig, the project's chief executive, served as a captain in the foreign intelligence directorate of the East German secret police, the Stasi, in the 1980s.
But the editor, Sarah Sands, and the proprietor – and I swear I am not making this up – one Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and former officer of the foreign intelligence directorate of the KGB, won't listen.
For the assessments in this report, forest products trade statistics were taken from the March 2000 issue of Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade, published by the Directorate of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Department of Commerce.
(The sharp response to the leak by the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs, which has no love for the PLA, supports this view. Its Asia directorate has been strongly against allowing even an internal debate on a North Korean collapse, let alone a discussion with foreigners).
John Reid's description of the immigration directorate, the forerunner of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), as "not fit for purpose" after the mistaken release of thousands of foreign prisoners, led to a major shake-up of the system and the eventual splitting up of the Home Office into two different departments.
The Directorate of Science and Technology is responsible for keeping the agency abreast of scientific and technological advances, for carrying out technical operations (e.g., coordinating intelligence from reconnaissance satellites), and for supervising the monitoring of foreign media.
Quotes reports of foreign visitors.
Bribery of foreign officials.
