The Veberkom affair began in early 2015 when it was revealed that an unannounced inspection by the Comission for the control of Intelligence and Security Services discovered that the Intelligence and Security Agency of the Ministry of Defense was conducting inquaries regarding the sale of the company Telekom. Following events caused many debates, controversies and conflicting opinions among different legal and other experts. During the affair, classified documents were disclosed, revealing that Telekom was included in the list of state critical infrastructure as one of the key national communication and information systems. Since classified data can also be transmited using such systems, the issue of national security risk arose. Different actors in the affair have had different views on the matter. Based on this fact the main goal of the assignment will be a professional analysis of the affair and the behavior of the main actors, which I will carry out with the help of research questions. In the first part of the assignment, I delved into the theory of the operation of intelligence services and the definition of this field in Slovenia. I then defined the field of critical infrastructure with an emphasis on communication and information systems and their connection with intelligence and security services. I continued with a systematic description and analysis of the Veberkom affair. In my work, I used the historical method, the analytical-synthetic method, the method of comparison and the analysis of primary and secondary sources.
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