NIS, noun

/en aɪ ˈes/
In historical contexts. A short name for the National Intelligence Service.
Note:
See note at BOSS.
1982 Sunday Times 9 May 6The NIS is headed by 33-year-old..academic, Dr N Barnard.
1983 Rand Daily Mail 1 Feb. 6Dr Slabbert posed..questions for the Government to answer...Was Martin D— in the employ of the National Intelligence Service when the raid took place?..If so, did nobody at the NIS know where he was?
1984 R. Davies et al. Struggle for S. Afr. I. 193After 1978 under Botha’s premiership, BOSS was restructured and renamed (first the Department of National Security — DONS — and now the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
1988 Race Rel. Survey 1987–8 (S.A.I.R.R.) 545In June [1987] the state president, Mr PW Botha, refused to give information in Parliament concerning the total number of persons employed in the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and their salary scales.
1993 C. Robertson in Sunday Times 14 Nov. 3He spied on the ANC, he spied on the AWB, he spied on the SADF, SAP, MI, NIS and SB.
A short name for the National Intelligence Service.
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