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[edit]

Currently active counterintelligence organizations include the following. For former agencies, see the separate list below.

Australia

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

Bangladesh

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

Belarus

State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

Belgium

General Intelligence and Security Service (GISS)
Veiligheid van de Staat - Sûreté de l'Etat (VSSE)

Brazil

Brunei

Jabatan Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (JKDN)

Cambodia

Cambodian National Police Central Security Department (CSD)
Military Intelligence Department (MID)

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

Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE)
Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI)
Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM)
DRSD

Germany

Greece

Elliniki Astynomia Dieufthinsi Esoterikon Hypotheseon (DEH)
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

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Directorate of Air Intelligence (A.I.)
Directorate of Military Intelligence (M.I.)
Directorate of Naval Intelligence (N.I.)
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Indonesia

Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN)
Badan Intelijen Strategis Tentara Nasional Indonesia (BAIS TNI)
Kejaksaan Agung Republik Indonesia (KARI)
Pusat Intelijen TNI Angkatan Darat abbreviated (Pusintelad)

Iran

Farmândehiye Entezâmiye Jomhuriye Eslâmiye Irân (Faraja)
Oghab 2
Parallel Intelligence Organization (PIO)
Rêxistina Dijî Îstîxbarata Pasdaran (RDIP)
Rêxistina Kontraîstixbarata Arteş (RKA)
Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran (VAJA)
SAHEFAJA

Ireland

Crime and Security Branch (CSB)
G2

Israel

Aman
Mossad
Shin Bet (official name is Shabak)

Italy

Department of Information for Security (DIS)
External Intelligence and Security Agency (AISE)
Joint Intelligence Centre (CII)

Japan

Air Intelligence Wing (AIW) (作戦情報隊)
Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO)
Defense Intelligence Headquarters (DIH)
Fleet Intelligence Command (FIC)
JSDF Intelligence Security Command (JISC) (自衛隊情報保全隊)
Military Intelligence Command (MIC)
Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department (FAID)
Public Security Bureau (PSB)
Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA)
Security and Intelligence Division (SID) (警備情報課)

Kenya

National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS)^[7]

Lebanon

Special Agency to Combat Terrorism^[8]

Malaysia

Cawangan Khas (CK)
Bahagian Penyelidikan Jabatan Perdana Menteri (BPJPM)
Kor Risik Diraja (KRD)
Pertubuhan Perisikan Pertahanan Malaysia (PPPM)

Myanmar

Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI)
Office of the Chief of Military Security Affairs (OCMSA)

Netherlands

Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) — General Intelligence and Security Service
Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) — Military Intelligence and Security Service

New Zealand

Directorate of Defence Intelligence and Security (DDIS)
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS)
Threat Assessment Unit (TAU)

North Korea

Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB)

Pakistan

Directorate General Air Intelligence (AI)
Directorate-General for the Naval Intelligence (NI)
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Pakistan Army Corps of Military Intelligence (MI)

Philippines

300th Air Intelligence and Security Wing (300th AISW)
Army Intelligence Regiment (AIR)
Counter Intelligence Command, Armed Forces of the Philippine (CIC)
Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG)
National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)
Naval Intelligence and Security Force (NISF)
Presidential Intelligence Company (PIC)

Poland

Internal Security Agency (ABW)
Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW)

Portugal

Military Security and Informations Center (CISMIL)
Informations System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP)

Romania

Russian Federation

Serbia

Bezbednosno-informativna agencija (BIA)
Vojnobezbednosna agencija (VBA), Military Security Agency (successor of Yugoslav Kontraobaveštajna služba)

Sweden

Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten (MUST) — Military Intelligence and Security Service
Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO) — Swedish Security Service

Switzerland

Fedpol
Federal Intelligence Service (FIS)
Militärischer Nachrichtendienst (MND)

Slovakia

Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) — National Security Bureau

South Africa

South Korea

Defense Counterintelligence Command (DCC)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Naval Intelligence Group (NIG)
National Intelligence Service (NIS)
National Police Agency Intelligence Bureau (IB)

Thailand

Armed Forces Security Center (AFSC)
Army Military Intelligence Command (AMIC)
Directorate of Intelligence, Royal Thai Air Force (INTELLRTAF)
Directorate of Joint Intelligence (DJI)
Internal Security Affairs Bureau (ISAB)
Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC)
National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
Naval Intelligence Department (NID)
Royal Thai Police Special Branch Bureau (SBB)

Turkey

Donanma İstihbarat Dairesi (DİD)
Hava Kuvvetleri İstihbarat Dairesi (HKİD)
Higher Counterterrorism Council^[9]
Jandarma İstihbarat Müdürlüğü (JİM)
Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT)
Ordu İstihbarat Dairesi (OİD)

Ukraine

Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU)
HUR MO
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)

United Kingdom

Counter Intelligence Operations Squadron (CIOS)
Defence Intelligence (DI)
Security Service, commonly known as MI5
National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU)

United States

FBI Counterintelligence Division (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)
National Security Agency (NSA)

Vietnam

General Department of Defence Intelligence (GDDI)

Defunct counterintelligence organizations[edit]

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 (military intelligence)

Empire of Japan

Kenpeitai - Army military police
Tokubetsu Keisatsutai - Navy military police
Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (特別高等警察, Special Higher Police) - civil 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
SMERSH

South Korea

Defense Security Command— dissolved in 2018

Ukraine

Kontrrazvedka, Makhnovist counterintelligence agency

United Kingdom

14 Intelligence Company — also known as "the Det"

United States

References[edit]

^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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] "Kenyan National Security Intelligence Service". Retrieved 2007-11-08.

[8] Hunt, Emily (February 6, 2006). "Can al-Qaeda's Lebanese Expansion Be Stopped?". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 2007-11-06.

[9] "Erdoğan resists calls for northern Iraq incursion". USA-Turkish Times. Retrieved 2007-11-07.^{[permanent dead link]}

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