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List of intelligence agencies

A list of intelligence agencies, past and present:

International/Regional agencies:

By country:

  • Albania
    • Sigurimi (Defunct)
    • National Intelligence Service (NIS/SHIK)
  • Argentina
    • Central Nacional de Inteligenzia (CNI)
  • Belgium
    • Veiligheid van de Staat (SV) (Dutch) or Surete de l'Etat (SE) (French)
    • ADIV (Dutch) or Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (SGRS)
  • Brazil
    • Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)
    • Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (Defunct)
  • Colombia
    • Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS)
  • Cuba
    • Directorate General of Intelligence (DGI)
    • Revolutionary Armed Forces Intelligence
  • Czech Republic
    • Bezpecnostni informacni sluzba (BIS)
    • Urad pro zahranicni styky a informace (UZSI)
  • Czechoslovakia
    • Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS, Defunct)
    • Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR, Defunct)
  • Denmark
    • Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET)
    • Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE)


  • Egypt
    • General Directorate of State Security Service
  • France
    • Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) (Domestic counterintelligence agency.)
    • Deuxieme Bureau (Defunct)
    • Service de documentation Extérieure et de Contre-espionnage (SDECE, 1946-1982)
    • Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE, 1982-) (External intelligence agency.)
    • Direction de la Protection et de la Sécurité de la Défense (DPSD) (Internal security and political stability of the armed forces.)
    • Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) (External military intelligence.)
  • Germany
    • Current
      • Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (BfV)
      • Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
      • Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD)
    • West Germany
      • Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (BfV)
      • Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
      • Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD)
    • East Germany
      • State Security Service (SSD, Defunct)
      • Hauptverwaltung Aufklaerung, (HVA) part of the MfS (Stasi, defunct)
    • Nazi Germany
  • Greece
    • Hellenic National Intelligence Service (NIS)
  • Iran
    • SAVAK (National Organization for Intelligence and Security), Shah's security police
    • VEVAK (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)
  • Iraq
    • General Intelligence Directorate
    • Special Security Service
  • Italy
    • Servizio Informazioni Generali e Sicurezza (SISDE)
    • Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI)
  • Japan
    • Public Security Investigation Agency (PSIA)
  • Jordan
    • General Intelligence Department
  • Korea, South
    • National Intelligence Service (South Korea) (NIS)
  • Libya
    • Jamahiriya el Mukhabarat
  • Maldives
    • National Security Service (NSS)
  • Netherlands
    • Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD)
    • Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (defunct)
  • New Zealand
    • Government Communications Security Bureau
    • Security Intelligence Service
  • Norway
    • Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste (PST)
  • Pakistan
    • Pakistan Intelligence Bureau
    • Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence
  • Poland
    • Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB, Defunct)
    • Urzad Ochrony Panstwa (UOP, Defunct 1990-2001)
    • Agencja Wywiadu (AB, - External intelligence agency)
    • Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnetrznego (ABW, Internal intelligence agency)
    • Wojskowe Sluzby Informacyjne (WSI, military intelligence agency)
    • Centralne Biuro Sledcze (CBS, coordination body for anti-mafia and anti-terrorist issues)
    • Biuro Ochrony Rzadu - (BOR, similar to US Secret Service)
  • Romania
    • Departamentul de Informaţii Externe (DIE)
    • Direcţia de Informaţii a Armatei (DIA)
    • Serviciul de Informaţii Externe (SIE)
    • Serviciul de Pază şi Protecţie (SPP)
    • Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI)
  • Russia
    • Current
    • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
      • Cheka (1917-1922)
      • Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (GPU, 1922-1923)
      • Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU, 1923-1934)
      • Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del (NKVD, 1934-1946)
      • Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD, 1946-1954)
      • Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (MGB, 1943-1953)
      • Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB; 1954-1991)
  • South Africa
    • National Intelligence Agency
    • South African Secret Service
    • Bureau of State Security (BOSS) (defunct)
  • Turkey
    • Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT)
    • Jandarma Istihbarat ve Terorle Mucadele (JITEM)
  • Ukraine
    • Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU)]]

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