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
Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Belgian State Security Service — in Dutch, Staatsveiligheid (SV); in French, Sûreté de l'État (SE)
- Canada
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
- Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit (CFNCIU)[2]
- Czech Republic
- Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) — Security Information Service[3]
- Iceland
- Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit
- India
- Intelligence Bureau (IB)
- Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
- Ireland
- Defence Forces Directorate of Military Intelligence
- Garda Crime & Security Branch (CSB)
- Garda Special Detective Unit (SDU)
- Garda National Surveillance Unit (NSU)
- Italy
- Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (AISI), formerly known as SISDE
- Japan
- Public Security Intelligence Agency (Koanchosacho)[7]
- the Netherlands
- Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) — General Intelligence and Security Service
- Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) — Military Intelligence and Security Service
- Poland
- Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnetrznego (ABW) — en. Internal Security Agency
- Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW); en. Military Counterintelligence Service
- Serbia
- Bezbednosno-informativna agencija (BIA)
- Vojnobezbednosna agencija (VBA), Military Security Agency (successor of Yugoslav Kontraobaveštajna služba)
- 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
- United Kingdom
- Security Service, commonly known as MI5
- Royal Air Force Police Special Investigations and Intelligence Branch
- United States
- United States Army Intelligence CI Special Agents (USAI)
- Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
- Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
- DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC)
- Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS)
- Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), U.S. Department of State (DS/ICI/CI)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Foreign Counterintelligence Program
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS, formerly NIS)
- Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Defunct counterintelligence organizations
These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization.
- 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
- Committee for State Security (KGB) — previously MGB, NKVD, OGPU, Cheka, and, during imperial times, Okhrana
- United Kingdom
- 14 Intelligence Company — also known as "the Det"
References
- ↑ "Overview of ASIS's purpose". ASIS. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ↑ "CFNCIU". Retrieved 2011-04-15.
- ↑ "Czech Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ "Hellenic National Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "The crisis of the Hungarian intelligence services". November 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ "Public Security Investigation Agency". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ "Kenyan National Security Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ Hunt, Emily (February 6, 2006). "Can al-Qaeda's Lebanese Expansion Be Stopped?". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
- ↑ "Switzerland: Intelligence Agencies". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ↑ "Erdoğan resists calls for northern Iraq incursion". USA-Turkish Times. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
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