Federal Act
on the Intelligence Service
(Intelligence Service Act, IntelSA)

¹ Hu­man sources are per­sons who:

a.

provide the FIS with in­form­a­tion or in­tel­li­gence;

b.

provide the FIS with ser­vices that as­sist in the ful­fil­ment of tasks in terms of this Act;

c.

sup­port the FIS in pro­cur­ing in­form­a­tion.

² The FIS may pay hu­man sources ap­pro­pri­ately for their activ­it­ies. Where this is ne­ces­sary in or­der to pro­tect the sources or to gath­er fur­ther in­form­a­tion, the pay­ment shall not be re­garded as tax­able in­come or as in­come in terms of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1946⁵ on Old-Age and Sur­viv­ors' In­sur­ance.

³ The FIS shall take the meas­ures re­quired to pro­tect the life and limb of hu­man sources. Such meas­ures may also be taken in re­spect of per­sons closely as­so­ci­ated with hu­man sources.

⁴ The Head of the DDPS may in spe­cif­ic cases au­thor­ise the FIS to provide hu­man sources with a cov­er story or an ali­as iden­tity on con­clu­sion of their co­oper­a­tion, if this is ne­ces­sary in or­der to pro­tect the life and limb of the per­sons con­cerned.

⁵ The meas­ures men­tioned in para­graphs 3 and 4 are lim­ited to the peri­od of ac­tu­al danger. By way of ex­cep­tion, a time lim­it may be dis­pensed with or a tem­por­ary meas­ure may be changed in­to a per­man­ent meas­ure if the risks to the per­sons con­cerned are par­tic­u­larly ser­i­ous and it must be ex­pec­ted that they will con­tin­ue to ap­ply.