List of counterintelligence organizations
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Main article: Counterintelligence
Counterintelligence organizations and agencies attempt to prevent foreign intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against the governments they serve.
[edit] Active counterintelligence organizations
- Belgium
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- Belgian State Security Service — in Dutch, Staatsveiligheid (SV); in French, Sûreté de l'État (SE)
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- Czech Republic
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- Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) — Security Information Service[3]
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- Estonia
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- Kaitsepolitseiamet (KAPO) — Security Police Board
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- Hungary
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- Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal (NBH) — Office of National Security[6]
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- Iceland
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- Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit
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- India
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- Intelligence Bureau (IB)
- Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
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- Ireland
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- An Garda Siochana[7] (National Police Service) — under the Deputy Commissioner for Operations are the Special Services, Security & Intelligence, Special Branch C3 Section (dealing with terrorism and subversion)
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- Italy
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- Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (AISI), formerly known as SISDE
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- Japan
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- Public Security Intelligence Agency (Koanchosacho)[8]
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- the Netherlands
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- Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) — General Intelligence and Security Service
- Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) — Military Intelligence and Security Service
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- Poland
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- Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnetrznego (ABW) — en. Internal Security Agency
- Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW); en. Military Counterintelligence Service
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- Serbia
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- Bezbednosno-informativna agencija (BIA)
- Vojnobezbednosna agencija (VBA), Military Security Agency (successor of Yugoslav Kontraobaveštajna služba)
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- Sweden
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- Säkerhetspolisen (Säpo) — Swedish Security Service
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- Switzerland
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- Federal Office of Police — in German, Bundesamt für Polizei (BAP); in French, Office fédéral de la police; in Italian, Ufficio federale di polizia[11]
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- Slovakia
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- Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) — National Security Bureau
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- United Kingdom
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- Security Service, commonly known as MI5
- Royal Air Force Police Special Investigations and Intelligence Branch
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- United States
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- United States Army Intelligence CI Special Agents (USAI)
- Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
- Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
- DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC)
- Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS)
- Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), U.S. Department of State (DS/ICI/CI)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Foreign Counterintelligence Program
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS, formerly NIS)
- Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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[edit] Defunct counterintelligence organizations
These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization.
- Nazi Germany
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- Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
- Sicherheitsdienst — Security Service of the SS, particularly the "inland SS" branch
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- Poland
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- Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne (WSI) — dissolved in 2006 for having been involved in illegal activities
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- Yugoslavia
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- Kontraobaveštajna služba (KOS), Army Counter-Intelligence Service
- Uprava Državne Bezbednosti (UDBA), State Security Directorate
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- Soviet Union and Imperial Russia
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- Committee for State Security (KGB) — previously MGB, NKVD, OGPU, Cheka, and, during imperial times, Okhrana
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- United Kingdom
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- 14 Intelligence Company — also known as "the Det"
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[edit] References
- ^ "Overview of ASIS's purpose". ASIS. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ "CFNCIU". 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). Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "The crisis of the Hungarian intelligence services". November 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Ireland: Intelligence". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Public Security Investigation Agency". 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.
- ^ "Switzerland: Intelligence Agencies". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Erdoğan resists calls for northern Iraq incursion". USA-Turkish Times. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
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