List of intelligence agencies

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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[edit]

Albania[edit]

Argentina[edit]

Armenia[edit]

Australia[edit]

Austria[edit]

Azerbaijan[edit]

Bahamas[edit]

Bahrain[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

Barbados[edit]

Belarus[edit]

Belgium[edit]

  • VSSE (State Security Service)
  • ADIV / SGRS (ADIV/SGRS) (General Intelligence and Security Service, military intelligence)

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

Botswana[edit]

Brazil[edit]

Brunei[edit]

Bulgaria[edit]

  • State Intelligence Agency (Държавна агенция „Разузнаване“ (DAR)) – overseas intelligence gathering service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
  • State Agency for National Security (Държавна агенция за национална сигурност (DANS)) – national security service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria

Burundi[edit]

Canada[edit]

Chad[edit]

Chile[edit]

People's Republic of China[edit]

Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCCPC)

People's Liberation Army (PLA)

State Council of the People's Republic of China

Colombia[edit]

Democratic Republic of the Congo[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Internal and Foreign Intelligence

Military Intelligence

Cuba[edit]

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Ministry of the FAR (MINFAR)

Ministry of the Interior

Cyprus[edit]

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

Czech Republic[edit]

Denmark[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Eritrea[edit]

Estonia[edit]

Ethiopia[edit]

Finland[edit]

France[edit]

Gambia[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Germany[edit]

Federal[edit]

State[edit]

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

Ghana[edit]

Greece[edit]

Guyana[edit]

  • National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)[6][7][8][9]

Haiti[edit]

Hungary[edit]

Iceland[edit]

India[edit]

Military Intelligence

Indonesia[edit]

Iran[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Foreign & Domestic Military Intelligence (Defence Forces)

Domestic Police Intelligence (Garda Síochána)

Israel[edit]

  • Mossad (Foreign Intelligence and Special Operations)
  • Shin Bet (Internal Security Service)
  • Aman (Military intelligence)
  • Lahav 433 (Police intelligence)

Italy[edit]

Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza (DIS) - Department of Information for Security

Jamaica

  • Ministry of Finance and the Public Service[13]
    • Financial Investigations Division (FID)[14]

Japan[edit]

Jordan[edit]


Kenya[edit]


Kyrgyzstan[edit]


Lebanon[edit]

Liberia[edit]

Lithuania[edit]

Luxembourg[edit]

Madagascar[edit]

  • Central Intelligence Service (CIS)[15]


Malaysia[edit]

Mexico[edit]

Moldova[edit]

Mongolia[edit]

Montenegro[edit]

Morocco[edit]


Myanmar[edit]

Namibia[edit]

Nepal[edit]

Netherlands[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

North Korea[edit]

North Macedonia[edit]

Norway[edit]

Oman[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC)

Palestine[edit]

Panama[edit]

Papua New Guinea[edit]

Peru[edit]

Philippines[edit]

Poland[edit]

Portugal[edit]

Qatar[edit]

Romania[edit]

Russia[edit]

Rwanda[edit]

Saudi Arabia[edit]

Serbia[edit]

Civil Security and Intelligence

Military Security and Intelligence

Singapore[edit]

Ministry of Defense (MINDEF)

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Slovakia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

  • Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency - Slovenska Obveščevalno-Varnostna Agencija (SOVA)
  • Intelligence and Security Service of Slovenian Ministry of Defence - Obveščevalno Varnostna Služba (OVS)[26]
  • General Staff SAF – Section for intelligence matters – J2 - General štab SV – Sektor za obveščevalne zadeve – J2 (GŠSV-J2)[27]

Somalia[edit]

South Africa[edit]

South Korea[edit]

Spain[edit]

Sri Lanka[edit]

Sudan[edit]

Sweden[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

Syria[edit]

National Security Bureau

Taiwan[edit]

Tajikistan[edit]

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

Tanzania[edit]

Thailand[edit]

Trinidad & Tobago[edit]

Turkey[edit]

Turkmenistan[edit]

Ukraine[edit]

United Arab Emirates[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Domestic intelligence

Foreign intelligence

Signals intelligence

Criminal Intelligence and Protected Persons

United States[edit]

Uruguay[edit]

Uzbekistan[edit]

  • State Security Service - Davlat Xavfsizlik Xizmati (DXX)/ Служба государственной безопасности (СГБ)

Venezuela[edit]

Vietnam[edit]

Yemen[edit]

Zimbabwe[edit]

European Union[edit]

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation[edit]

See also[edit]

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