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
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
  • Belgian State Security Service in Dutch, Staatsveiligheid (SV); in French, Sûreté de l'État (SE)
Brazil
  • Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)
Canada
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
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
  • Constitution Protection Office (Hungary) (NBH)[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
Russian Federation
  • Federal Security Service (FSB)
Serbia
  • Bezbednosno-informativna agencija (BIA)
  • Vojnobezbednosna agencija (VBA), Military Security Agency (successor of Yugoslav Kontraobaveštajna služba)
Sweden
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
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
Empire of Japan
Poland
  • Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne (WSI) dissolved in 2006 for having been involved in illegal activities
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union and Imperial Russia
United Kingdom
  • 14 Intelligence Company also known as "the Det"
United States

References

  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). 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.
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