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The following is a partial list of intelligence agencies, past and present. It includes a few multinationals followed by per-nation lists.

1 International/regional agencies

Interpol - International Criminal Police Organization
Europol - European Union

2 Agencies by country

Afghanistan
- Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (Defunct)

Albania
- Sigurimi (Defunct)
- National Intelligence Service (NIS/SHIK)

Argentina
- Central Nacional de Inteligencia (Defunct)
- Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado (SIDE)

Australia
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
- Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS)
- Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)

Belgium
- Veiligheid van de Staat or Staatsveiligheid (SV) / Sûreté de l'État (SE)
- Algemene Dienst Inlichting en Veiligheid (ADIV) / Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (SGRS)

BrazilThis article is about Brazil, the country. For other article subjects named Brazil see Brazil (disambiguation). The Federative Republic of Brazil Republica Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America.
- Agência Brasileira de InteligênciaThe Agencia Brasileira de Inteligencia or Brazilian Agency of Intelligence is the successor of the former (and infamous) SNI that during the dictatorship that ran from the 1960s to the middle 1980s in Brazil was responsible for censorship, torture, murder (ABIN)
- Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (Defunct)

BulgariaThe Republic of Bulgaria is a republic in the southeast of Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north along the river Danube.
- Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe
- Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP or Mounties French, Gendarmerie royale du Canada GRC) is the federal police force of Canada. In addition to providing federal (national) level policing, they also provide provincial and municipal police services unde (RCMP)
- Canadian Security Intelligence ServiceThe Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was founded by an act of the Canadian Parliament, Bill C-9, "an Act to Establish the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)" to be a replacement for the floundering Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sec (CSIS) http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/
- Communications Security EstablishmentThe Communications Security Establishment or CSE is an intelligence agency of the Canadian government, charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign signals intelligence. Part of the Department of National Defence, CSE is forbidden, by law, to interce (CSE)

China, People's Republic of
- Ministry of State Security (MSS)

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

Estonia
- Kaitsepolitseiamet

Finland
- Suojelupoliisi (Supo)

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
  - Abwehr
  - Gestapo
  - Sicherheitsdienst (SD)

Greece
- Hellenic National Intelligence Service (NIS)

Hungary
- Államvédelmi Hatóság (AVH)
- Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal (NBH)

India
- Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
- Intelligence Bureau (IB)
- Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Iran
- SAVAK (National Organization for Intelligence and Security), Shah's security police
- VEVAK (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)

Iraq
- pre- 2003 invasion: Mukhabarat
  - General Intelligence Directorate
  - Special Security Service
- post-2003 invasion:
  - Iraqi National Intelligence Service
  - General Security Directorate

Republic of Ireland
- Irish Secret Service

Israel
- ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim ( Mossad)
- Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali ( Shin Bet)

Italy
- Servizio Informazioni Generali e Sicurezza (SISDE)
- Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI)

Japan
- Public Security Investigation Agency (PSIA)
- Naichaku Chosashitsu Betsushitsu (Naicho)

Jordan
- General Intelligence Department

Korea, South
- National Intelligence Service (South Korea) (NIS)

Libya
- Jamahiriya el Mukhabarat

Maldives
- National Security Service (NSS)

Netherlands
- General Intelligence and Security Office (AIVD) - Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst
- Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (defunct)

New Zealand
- Government Communications Security Bureau
- Security Intelligence Service

Norway
- Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste (PST - Police Security Agency)
- Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet (NSM - National Security Authority)
- Forsvarets Etterretningstjeneste (NIS - Military Intelligence)

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 Bezpieczenstwa 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 Informatii Externe (DIE)
- Directia de Informatii a Armatei (DIA)
- Serviciul de Informatii Externe (SIE)
- Serviciul de Paza si Protectie (SPP)
- Serviciul Român de Informatii (SRI)

Russia
- Current
  - Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB, successor of KGB)
  - Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU)
  - Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SVR)
- 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)

Serbia
- Bezbednosno Informativna Agencija (Security Information Agency) website

Slovenia
- Slovenska Obvescevalno-Varnostna Agencija (SOVA) http://www.gov.si/sova/

South Africa
- National Intelligence Agency
- South African Secret Service
- South African National Defence Force Intelligence Division (SANDF-ID)
- Crime Intelligence division of the South African Police Service
- Bureau of State Security (BOSS) (defunct)

Spain
- Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa ( CESID) - 2002.
- Centro Nacional de Inteligencia ( CNI) ( 2002 - )

Sweden
- Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten (MUST)
- Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO)

Switzerland
- Nachrichtendienst (SND) http://www.vbs.admin.ch/internet/gs/snd/d/dsnd.htm

Turkey
- Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT)
- Jandarma Istihbarat ve Terorle Mucadele (JITEM)

Turkmenistan
- Committee for National Security (KNB)

Ukraine
- Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU)

United Kingdom
- Department of Naval Intelligence
- Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
- Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)
- MI8 (defunct)
- MI9 (defunct)
- Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6)
- Security Service ( MI5)
- Special Branch
- Special Operations Executive (SOE in World War Two)

United States
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Air Force Intelligence
- Army Intelligence
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Marine Corps Intelligence
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency
- Navy Intelligence
- Federal Bureau of Investigation: National Security Division
- Coast Guard Intelligence
- Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate
- Department of Energy: Office of Intelligence
- Department of State: Bureau of Intelligence and Research
- Department of the Treasury: Office of Intelligence Support
- National Intelligence Council
- United States Secret Service

4 External links

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/index.html

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