List of counterintelligence organizations

Main article: Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence organizations and agencies attempt to prevent foreign intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against the governments they serve.

Active counterintelligence organizations

Australia
Brazil
  • Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)
Belgium
  • Belgian State Security Service in Dutch, Staatsveiligheid (SV); in French, Sûreté de l'État (SE)
Canada
Czech Republic
  • Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) Security Information Service[3]
Estonia
Finland
France
  • Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure (DGSI)
Germany
Greece
  • Hellenic National Intelligence Service[4] (NIS-EYP) Sub-Directorate for International Terrorism and Organized Crime[5]
Hungary
  • Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal (NBH) Office of National Security[6]
Iceland
  • Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit
India
Ireland
Iran
  • Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of Iran
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
  • National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS)[8]
Lebanon
  • Special Agency to Combat Terrorism[9]
the Netherlands
  • Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) General Intelligence and Security Service
  • Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) Military Intelligence and Security Service
New Zealand
Pakistan
Poland
  • Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnetrznego (ABW) en. Internal Security Agency
  • Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW); en. Military Counterintelligence Service
Portugal
Romania
  • Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI)
Russian Federation
  • Federal Security Service (FSB)
Serbia
Sweden
  • Säkerhetspolisen (Säpo) Swedish Security Service
Switzerland
  • Federal Office of Police in German, Bundesamt für Polizei (BAP); in French, Office fédéral de la police; in Italian, Ufficio federale di polizia[10]
Slovakia
  • Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) National Security Bureau
South Africa
Turkey
  • Higher Counterterrorism Council[11]
Ukraine
United Kingdom
  • Security Service, commonly known as MI5
  • Royal Air Force Police Special Investigations and Intelligence Branch
United States

Defunct counterintelligence organizations

These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization.

Ireland
Nazi Germany
  • Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
  • Sicherheitsdienst Security Service of the SS, particularly the "inland SS" branch
Poland
  • Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne (WSI) dissolved in 2006 for having been involved in illegal activities
Yugoslavia
  • Kontraobaveštajna služba (KOS), Army Counter-Intelligence Service
  • Uprava Državne Bezbednosti (UDBA), State Security Directorate
Soviet Union and Imperial Russia
United Kingdom
United States
Zimbabwe

References

  1. "Overview of ASIS's purpose". ASIS. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  2. "CFNCIU". Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  3. "Czech Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  4. "Hellenic National Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  5. Nomikos, John M. (Winter 2004). "Greek Intelligence Service and Post 9/11 Challenges" (PDF). The Journal of Intelligence History 4 (2). Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  6. "The crisis of the Hungarian intelligence services". November 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  7. "Public Security Investigation Agency". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  8. "Kenyan National Security Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  9. Hunt, Emily (February 6, 2006). "Can al-Qaeda's Lebanese Expansion Be Stopped?". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
  10. "Switzerland: Intelligence Agencies". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  11. "Erdoğan resists calls for northern Iraq incursion". USA-Turkish Times. Retrieved 2007-11-07.