List of intelligence agencies

This is a list of intelligence agencies by country. It includes only currently operational institutions.

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.[1]


Afghanistan

Albania
  • State Intelligence Service (SHISH) – Sherbimi Informativ Shteteror
  • Intelligence Agency of Defense (AISM) – Agjencia e Inteligjencës së Mbrojtjës

Algeria
  • Coordination des services de sécurité (CSS)
  • General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI)
  • General Directorate for Documentation and External Security (DGDSE)
  • General Directorate for Technical Intelligence (DGRT)

Argentina
Main article: Sistema de Inteligencia Nacional

Armenia

Australia
Main article: List of Australian intelligence agencies

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh
Main article: Bangladeshi intelligence community

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium
  • VSSE (State Security Service)
  • ADIV / SGRS (ADIV/SGRS) (General Intelligence and Security Service, military intelligence)
  • OCAD / OCAM (Coordination Unit for the Threat Assessment)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria
  • Държавна агенция „Разузнаване“ (DAR) (State Intelligence Agency) – overseas intelligence gathering service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
  • Държавна агенция за национална сигурност State Agency for National Security (DANS) – national security service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
  • Служба "Военна информация" (CVI) (Military Intelligence Service) – under Ministry of Defence supervision

Burundi

Cambodia

Canada

Chad

Chile
  • Ministry of Interior
    • National Intelligence Agency (ANI) – Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia
    • Carabineros Intelligence Departament (DIPOLCAR) – Dirección de Inteligencia de Carabineros
    • Police Intelligence Department – Jefatura de Inteligencia Policial
  • Ministry of National Defence
    • Defense Intelligence Departament (DID) – Dirección de Inteligencia de la Defensa
    • Army Intelligence Departament (DINE) – Dirección de Inteligencia del Ejército
    • Air Force Intelligence Departament (DIFA) – Dirección de Inteligencia de la Fuerza Aérea
    • Navy Intelligence Departament – Direccion de Inteligencia de la Armada

China (PRC)
See also: Chinese intelligence activity abroad and Chinese information operations and information warfare

Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCCPC)

People's Liberation Army (PLA)

State Council of the People's Republic of China

Hong Kong SAR

Macau SAR

Colombia
  • Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI)
  • Jefatura de Inteligencia Militar Conjunta
  • Jefatura de Inteligencia Militar (JEIMI)
  • Jefatura de Inteligencia Aérea (JIA)
  • Jefatura de Inteligencia Naval (JINA)
  • Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía Nacional (DIPOL)

Congo (DRC)

Congo (Republic of)
  • Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE)

Costa Rica
  • Intelligence and National Security Department (DIS) – Direccion de Inteligencia y Seguridad Nacional

Croatia
Main article: Croatian security and intelligence system

Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)

  • Departmento America (DA)

Ministry of the FAR (MINFAR)

Ministry of the Interior

Cyprus
  • Cyprus Intelligence Service (CIS) (Κυπριακή Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών)(ΚΥΠ), (former Central Intelligence Service-KYP)

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti
  • Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (BSRG)
  • Service de Documentation et de Sédimentation (SDS)

Dominican Republic
  • Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Department of Investigations)

Ecuador

Egypt

Eritrea
  • National Intelligence Agency (Hagerawi Dhnet) (ሃገራዊ ድሕነት)
  • Eritrea Intelligence Research Centre (EiRC - ሻዕቢያ) (Powered by NationalEr Interest)
  • National Security Office (or National Security Agency)[8]

Estonia

Ethiopia
See also: Ministry of Peace (Ethiopia)

Finland

France
Main article: List of intelligence agencies of France

Gambia

State Intelligence Services (the Gambia) (SIS)

Georgia

Germany
Main article: List of intelligence agencies of Germany

Federal

State
  • Landesministerium des Innern: State Ministry of the Interior (different denominations from state to state)

Ghana
  • National Security Council (Ghana) (Centre of National Security)
  • National Signals Bureau (NSB) – (Cyber Intelligence)
  • Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) – (Internal Intelligence Agency)
  • Research Department Unit – Research Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (External Intelligence Agency)
  • Criminal Investigative Department (CID) – (Ghana Police)
  • Military Intelligence Unit (MIU) – (Ghana Armed Forces)

Greece

Haiti

Hungary

Iceland

India
Main article: List of Indian Intelligence agencies

Indonesia

Iran
Main article: Iranian Intelligence Community

General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

  • Intelligence Protection Organization of General Staff of the Armed Forces

Islamic Republic of Iran Army:

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:

Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics:

  • Intelligence Protection Organization of Ministry of Defence (SAHEFAVEDJA)

Iraq

Ireland

Foreign & Domestic Military Intelligence (Defence Forces)

Domestic Police Intelligence (Garda Síochána)

Israel
Main article: Israeli Intelligence Community
  • Mossad (Foreign Intelligence and Special Operations)
  • Shin Bet (Internal Security Service)
  • Aman (Military intelligence)
  • Lahav 433 (Police intelligence)

Italy
Main article: Italian intelligence agencies
  • Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza (DIS): "Department of Information for Security"
  • Internal Intelligence
  • External Intelligence
  • Military Intelligence
    • 2nd Information and Security Unit (II RIS) : "II Reparto Informazioni e Sicurezza" (military intelligence and security command of the Joint General Staff)
      • Reparto per le Informazioni Operative (RIO): "Operational Informations Unit" (information gathering branch).
        • Centro Intelligence Interforze (CII): "Joint Intelligence Center"
        • Centro Interforze di Formazione Intelligence e Guerra Elettronica (CIFI/GE): "Joint Intelligenge and Electronic Warfare Training Center"
      • Reparto per la Sicurezza e le Addettanze Militari: "Security and Military Attaches Unit" (information security and counterintelligence branch).
        • Ufficio Addettanze Militari all'Estero: Military Attaches Abroad Office (military diplomatic intelligence).
        • Ufficio Sicurezza Difesa: "Defense Security Office" (military counterintelligence).
      • Ufficio di Polizia Militare: "Military Police Office" (military information structures security).
        • Centro di Valutazione della Difesa (Ce.Va.Difesa): "Defense Evaluation Center" (military software and systems security evaluation).
      • Reparto per la Politica informativa ed il Telerilevamento Satellitare: "Information Policies and Satellite Remote Sensing Unit" (technical intelligence branch).
        • Centro Interforze Telerilevamento Satellitare (CITS): "Joint Satellite Remote Sensing Center".
        • Ufficio Politica Informativa e Guerra Elettronica: "Information Policies and Electronic Warfare Office".
    • Raggruppamento Unità Difesa (RUD): "Defense Units Group" (high-level security and operations branch).

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Korea, North (DPRK)

Korea, South (ROK)

Independent agencies

Korean National Police (KNP)

  • Intelligence Bureau

Ministry of National Defense (MND)

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)

Kuwait
  • The Ministry of Interior (وزارة الداخلية),
    • Domestic Undercover Police (المباحث الجنائية)
    • Kuwait National Security Bureau (جهاز الأمن الوطني)
  • The Ministry of Defense (وزارة الدفاع),
    • Military Intelligence Agency ( الاستخبارات العسكرية )
  • The National Guard (الحرس الوطني),
    • National Guard Intelligence Agency (وكالة استخبارات الحرس الوطني)

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia
  • Valsts drošības dienests (VDD) (State Security Service)
  • Satversmes aizsardzības birojs (SAB) (Constitution Protection Bureau)
  • Militārās izlūkošanas un drošības dienests (MIDD) (Defence Intelligence and Security Service)

Lebanon

Liberia

Lithuania

Luxembourg
  • Service de Renseignement de l'État Luxembourgeois / Lëtzebuerger Staatlëchen Noriichtendéngscht (SREL, Luxembourg State Intelligence Service, i.e. the Homeland Intelligence Service)
  • Haut Commissariat de la Sécurité Extérieure / Héichkommissariat fir auswäerteg Sëcherheet (HCSE, High Commission for External Security, i.e. the Foreign Intelligence Service)
  • Service de Renseignement de l'Armée Luxembourgeoise / Noriichtendéngscht vun der Lëtzebuerger Arméi (SRAL, Luxembourgish Army Intelligence Service, i.e. the Military Intelligence Service)

Madagascar
  • Central Intelligence Service (CIS)[11]

Malawi

In the Presidents Office

  • National Intelligence Service formerly known as National Intelligence Bureau

Malaysia

Maldives

Mexico

Moldova

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique
  • Servico de Informaçãos e Segurança do Estado (SISE)

Myanmar

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand
Main article: New Zealand intelligence agencies

Nicaragua
  • Dirección de Información para la Defensa (DID) (Directorate of Information for Defense)

Nigeria

North Macedonia
Main article: List of intelligence agencies of North Macedonia

Norway

Oman

Pakistan
Main article: Pakistani intelligence community

National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC)

Palestine

Panama
  • Consejo de Seguridad Pública y Defensa Nacional (CSPDN) (security, defense and intelligence main government entity)
  • National Police Intelligence Directorate (DNIP) – Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Policial
  • Direccion de Investigacion Judicial (DIJ)
  • Direccion General de Analisis e Inteligencia Estrategica (DGAIE)[16]
  • Servicio Nacional de Inteligencia y Seguridad (SENIS)[17]

Papua New Guinea
  • National Intelligence Organization (NIO)
  • Royal PNG Constabulary – National Criminal Intelligence Unit (NCIU), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
  • PNG Customs Service – Customs Intelligence
  • Department of Prime Minister – Office of Security Coordination & Assessment (OSCA)
  • PNG Defense Force – Defense Intelligence Bureau (DIB)
  • Bank of PNG – Financial Analysis & Supervision Unit (FASU)

Paraguay
  • Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia (SNI) (National Intelligence Secretariat)

Peru

Philippines

Poland
Main article: List of intelligence agencies of Poland

Other military units involved in:

  • IMINT
  • SIGINT
    • Reconnaissance Group of 3rd Ship Flotilla (gOR 3.FO)
    • Centre for Radioelectronic Combat Reconnaissance and Support ″Lieutenant Colonel Jan Kowalewski″ (CRiWWRE)
    • 2th Przasnysz Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment (2.ORel)
    • 6th Oliwa Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment ″Admiral Arendt Dickman″ (6.ORel)
    • Military Unit NIL "Brigadier General August Emil Fieldorf «Nil»" (JW NIL)
    • Narodowe Centrum Bezpieczeństwa Cyberprzestrzeni (NCBC - National Centre for Cyberspace Security) (SIGINT, cyberwarfare and cryptology)

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Russia
See also: Russian intelligence agencies

Saudi Arabia
  • Council of Political and Security Affairs (CPSA) – مجلس الشؤون السياسية والأمنية
  • General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) – رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة
  • Presidency of State Security (PSS) – رئاسة أمن الدولة
    • Mabahith (GDI) – المباحث العامة
  • Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense (MOD) – وزارة الدفاع
    • The Armed Forces Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات المسلحة
      • The Land Forces Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات البرية
      • The Naval Forces Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات البحرية
      • The Air Forces Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات الجوية
      • The Air Defense Forces Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن قوات الدفاع الجوي
      • The Strategic Missile Force Intelligence and Security Commission – هيئة استخبارات وأمن قوة الصواريخ الاستراتيجية
  • Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior (MOI) – وزارة الداخلية
    • Saudi Arabia Border Guards Intelligence Directorate – استخبارات حرس الحدود
    • General Directorate of Public Security (GPS) – مديرية الأمن العام
    • General Administration of Financial Investigations (GAFI) – الادارة العامة للتحريات المالية
  • Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG) – الحرس الوطني السعودي
    • National Guard Intelligence Commission – هيئة الاستخبارات بالحرس الوطني
  • Saudi Royal Guard (SRG) – رئاسة الحرس الملكي
    • Saudi Royal Guard Intelligence Commission – هيئة استخبارات الحرس الملكي السعودي
  • The National Cyber Security Commission[19] (NCSC) – الهيئة الوطنية للأمن السيبراني
  • Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) – مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي
    • Anti-Money Laundering Committee (AMLC) – اللجنة الدائمة لمكافحة غسل الاموال

Serbia
  • National
    • National Security Council and Classified Information Protection Office – Канцеларија Савета за националну безбедност и заштиту тајних података
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Ministry of Finance
    • Money Laundering Prevention Administration – Управа за спречавање прања новца

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia
  • Slovenska Obveščevalno-Varnostna Agencija (SOVA) (Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency)
  • Obveščevalno Varnostna Služba (OVS) ( Intelligence and Security Service of Slovenian Ministry of Defence)
  • General štab SV – Sektor za obveščevalne zadeve – J2 (GŠSV-J2) ( (General Staff SAF – Section for intelligence matters – J2)
  • Nacionalni Preiskovalni urad (NPU)

Somalia

South Africa

Spain
Main article: Spanish Intelligence Community

Sri Lanka
Main article: Sri Lankan intelligence agencies

Central Intelligence Directorate

Sudan

Sweden

Switzerland
Main article: Swiss intelligence agencies

Syria

Taiwan (ROC)

Tajikistan
  • State Committee for National Security (SCNS) – Кумитаи давлатии амнияти милли (КДАМ)/Государственный комитет национальной безопасности (ГКНБ)

Tanzania

(Usalama wa taifa)

Thailand

Turkey
  • President of Turkey
    • National Intelligence Organization (MİT) (semi-dependent (main), foreign intelligence, counter espionage and special operations)
      • Security İnvestigation Directorate
      • Counter-Intelligence Directorate
      • External Operations Directorate
      • Security Intelligence Directorate
      • Electronic and Technical Intelligence Directorate
      • Signals Intelligence Directorate
  • Ministry of National Defense
    • Joint Chief of Staff Intelligence Bureau (GENKUR-İDB) (semi-dependent, military intelligence and special operations)
    • Army Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
    • Navy Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
    • Air Force Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
  • Ministry of the Interior
    • Coast Guard Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
    • Gendarmerie Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence
    • Police Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, law enforcement)
  • Offices of the Other Ministries

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom
Main article: British intelligence agencies

Criminal Intelligence and Protected Persons

  • National Crime Agency (NCA)[22] – Organised crime intelligence gathering and analysis. In addition to having intelligence and surveillance powers, officers from the National Crime Agency can hold any or all three of the powers of a (armed) police officer, immigration officer and/or customs officer.[23] The Agency and its officers have special powers including acting as an enforcement authority for Unexplained wealth orders and access of internet records through the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.[24] National Crime Agency officers are posted overseas in around 50 countries.[25] They operate the UK Protected Persons Service, which includes witness protection.[26]
  • Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority - Human trafficking, slavery, economic, and serious organised crime.

Domestic intelligence

Foreign intelligence

Signals intelligence

United States
Main article: United States Intelligence Community

Uruguay
  • Servicio de Inteligencia y Contraespionaje del Estado – State Intelligence and Counterespionage Service[34]

Uzbekistan
  • Davlat Xavfsizlik Xizmati, Служба государственной безопасности (СГБ) (State Security Service)

Venezuela

Vietnam

Zambia
  • Zambia Security Intelligence Service (ZSIS)

Zimbabwe

European Union

See also

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