List of counterintelligence organizations explained

See main article: Counterintelligence. Counterintelligence organizations and agencies attempt to prevent foreign intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against the governments they serve.

Active counterintelligence organizations

See also: List of intelligence agencies.

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

• Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN)

• Gabinete de Segurança Institucional da Presidência da República (GSI)

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

• Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)

• Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)

• Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD)

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)

• 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

• Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI)

• Directorate for Military Security

Russian Federation

• Federal Security Service (FSB)

• Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

• Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU)

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

• Federal Intelligence Service (FIS)

• Militärischer Nachrichtendienst (MND)

Slovakia

• Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) - National Security Bureau

South Africa

• Defence Intelligence Division (DID)

• National Intelligence Agency (NIA)

• State Security Agency (SSA)

• South African Secret Service (SASS)

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

See also: List of defunct intelligence agencies.

These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization:

Ireland

• Army Intelligence Department

• Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

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

• Army Counter Intelligence Corps

• Counterintelligence Field Activity

Notes and References

1. Web site: Overview of ASIS's purpose. ASIS. 7 October 2012.
2. Web site: CFNCIU. 2011-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927072737/http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/dao-doa/8000/8002-2-eng.asp. 2011-09-27. dead.
3. Web site: Czech Intelligence Service. 2007-11-08.
4. Web site: Hellenic National Intelligence Service. 2007-11-08.
5. John M.. Nomikos. Greek Intelligence Service and Post 9/11 Challenges. The Journal of Intelligence History. Winter 2004. 4. 2. 75–83. 10.1080/16161262.2004.10555101. 155677142. 2007-11-08.
6. Web site: The crisis of the Hungarian intelligence services. November 8, 2007. 2007-11-08.
7. Web site: Kenyan National Security Intelligence Service. 2007-11-08.
8. Web site: Can al-Qaeda's Lebanese Expansion Be Stopped?. Emily. Hunt. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. February 6, 2006. 2007-11-06.
9. Erdoğan resists calls for northern Iraq incursion. USA-Turkish Times. 2007-11-07.