| Agency Name: | Administration for Security and Counterintelligence |
| Nativename A: | Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање (УБК) |
| Nativename R: | Uprava za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje (UBK) Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim (ASK) |
| Formed: | 1995[1] |
| Preceding1: | State Security Administration |
| Preceding2: | UDBA |
| Dissolved: | 2019 |
| Jurisdiction: | World |
| Headquarters: | Skopje, North Macedonia |
| Original Hq: | Skopje, North Macedonia |
| Employees: | Classified |
| Budget: | Classified |
| Minister2 Name: | Oliver Spasovski |
| Website: | www.mvr.gov.mk |
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање, Albanian: Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia.[2] Its headquarters are located in Skopje, and the agency is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.[3]
The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic.[4] Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence.[4]
This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency[5]
| Portrait | Name | Mandate commenced on | Mandate finished on | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1991 see: UDBA State Security Administration (Macedonian: Служба за Државна Безбедност) | ||||||
| 1 | Slobodan Bogoevski[6] | 1991 | 1995 | SDSM[7] | ||
| Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Дирекција за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | ||||||
| 2 | Dobri Veličkovski[8] [9] | 1995 | 1998 | SDSM | ||
| 3 | Zoran Veruševski[10] [11] | 1998 | 1998 | none | ||
| 4 | Bojan Bojanovski[12] | 1998 | 2001 | Democratic Alternative | ||
| 5 | Goran Mitevski[13] | 2001 | 2002 | VMRO-DPMNE | ||
| 6 | Nikola Spasovski[14] [15] | 2002 | 2003 | VMRO-DPMNE | ||
| 7 | 2003 | 2004 | SDSM | |||
| Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | ||||||
| 8 | 2004 | 2006 | SDSM | |||
| 9 | 2006 | 2015 | VMRO-DPMNE | |||
| 10 | 2015 | 2016 | VMRO-DPMNE | |||
| 11 | 2016 | 2017 | VMRO-DPMNE | |||
| 12 | 2017 | 2019 | none [16] | |||