List of counterintelligence organizations

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

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS)^[1]

Bangladesh

National Security Intelligence (NSI)
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI)

Belarus

State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

Belgium

Belgian State Security Service — in Dutch, Staatsveiligheid (SV); in French, Sûreté de l'État (SE)
Belgian General Information and Security Service — in Dutch, Algemene Dienst Inlichting en Veiligheid (ADIV); in French Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (SGRS)

Brazil

Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)

Canada

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit (CFNCIU),operated by the Canadian Forces Military Police Group^[2]

Croatia

Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA)
Military Security and Intelligence Agency (VSOA)

Czech Republic

Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) — Security Information Service^[3]

Denmark

Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET)

Estonia

Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo)

Finland

Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SuPo)

France

Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI)

Germany

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfZ)
Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD)

Greece

Hellenic National Intelligence Service^[4] (NIS-EYP) Sub-Directorate for International Terrorism and Organized Crime^[5]

Hungary

Constitution Protection Office (Hungary) (NBH)^[6]

Iceland

Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit

India

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

Ireland

Defence Forces Directorate of Military Intelligence
Garda Crime & Security Branch (CSB)

Iran

Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of Iran

Israel

Mossad
Shin Bet (official name is Shabak)

Italy

Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (AISI), formerly known as SISDE

Japan

National Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku), commonly known as "ja:公安警察, Kōan-Keisatsu, which means "public security police"" or shortly "公安, Kōan" in Japan.
Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁, Kōanchōsa-chō)^[7]
(自衛隊情報保全隊 Jieitai Jōhō-Hozentai)

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

New Zealand Security Intelligence Service

Pakistan

Inter-Services Intelligence

Poland

Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnetrznego (ABW) — en. Internal Security Agency
Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW); en. Military Counterintelligence Service

Portugal

Serviço de Informações e Segurança (SIS)

Romania

Russian Federation

Federal Security Service (FSB)

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

South Africa

National Intelligence Agency (NIA)

Turkey

National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) (MIT)
Higher Counterterrorism Council^[11]

Ukraine

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)

United Kingdom

Security Service, commonly known as MI5
Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6
Royal Air Force Police Counter Intelligence Squadron

United States

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
United States Army Counterintelligence (ACI)
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC)
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), U.S. Department of State (DS/ICI/CI)
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS, formerly NIS)
United States Marine Corps Counterintelligence
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.

Ireland

Nazi Germany

Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) (Secret Field Police) (1939-1945)
Sicherheitsdienst — Security Service of the SS, particularly the "inland SS" branch
Abwehr

Empire of Japan

Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (特別高等警察, Special Higher Police)

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"

United States

Army Counter Intelligence Corps
Counterintelligence Field Activity

References[]

^ "Overview of ASIS's purpose". ASIS. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
^ "CFNCIU". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. 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): 75–83. doi:10.1080/16161262.2004.10555101. S2CID 155677142. 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.^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] "Overview of ASIS's purpose". ASIS. Retrieved 7 October 2012.

[2] "CFNCIU". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. 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): 75–83. doi:10.1080/16161262.2004.10555101. S2CID 155677142. 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.^{[permanent dead link]}

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