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)

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)

Brazil

• Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)

Canada

• Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
• Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit (CFNCIU)^[2]

Czech Republic

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

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)
• 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)

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

• Public Security Intelligence Agency (Koanchosacho)^[7]

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

• Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI)

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

• Higher Counterterrorism Council^[11]

Ukraine

• Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)

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 (FBI)
• 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.

Ireland

• Army Intelligence Department
• Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

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"

United States

• Army Counter Intelligence Corps
• Counterintelligence Field Activity

Zimbabwe

• Central Intelligence Organisation

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.