Operation: Foreign Shores

Operation: Foreign Shores was an major intelligence investigation of the online social media platform TikTok. The operation led to the formation of the Temporary Joint Intelligence Committee of the United Micronations Treaty Alliance, which included many intelligence agencies from UMTA member states.

The operation was led by the State Committee for National Security and Intelligence from the Arstotzkan Union and a majority of the planning and efforts came from the SCNSI.

In the de-classified report surrounding the investigation, the TJIC found no evidence of TikTok containing or using any spyware of using malicious data collection. It did find that US-based social media entities, none were specifically named, posed a greater threat than TikTok.

Background

On 27 October 2023, the Office of the Presidency of the Arstotzkan Union began to ponder the threat posed by TikTok on national security and the privacy of the citizens of the Independent Federal Republic of the Arstotzkan Union. Previously the application had been banned under the Entertainment and Social Media Restrictions and Censorship Act 2020. This was later overturned through presidential oversight and the widespread usage of the application by members of the Arstotzkan Federal Government.

The possibility of an international ban led by the United States of America had been rumoured around this time and so the First President of the Arstotzkan Union along with the Chairman of National Security Division and the Chairman of the Intelligence Division of the State Committee of the National Security and Intelligence (Arstotzkan Union) met to plan a major intelligence operation to investigate the claims of the threats posed by the application.

Two weeks later, the State Committee of National Security and Intelligence decided to make this a larger scale investigation and reached out to the Collective Intelligence Office (CIO) of the United Micronations Treaty Alliance and formed the Temporary Joint Intelligence Committee (TJIC).

With many cyber warfare teams used by the CIO and UMTA located in the Allied Micronational Treaty Organization (AMTO), the organization was also recruited to join the TJIC through a newly created branch known as the International Intelligence Office (IIO).

Parties involved

The investigation required the usage of five intelligence groups:

• State Committee for National Security and Intelligence
  • Government Intelligence Directorate
  • Military Intelligence Directorate
• HM
• N.O.O.B
• International Intelligence Office
• Collective Intelligence Office

Findings

According to the report published by the Temporary Joint Intelligence Committee, the group found that TikTok poses no threat to the member nations.

See also

• Arstotzkan Union
• State Committee for National Security and Intelligence
• Arstotzkan Federal Intelligence Agency