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.
- Canada
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
- Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit (CFNCIU),operated by the Canadian Forces Military Police Group[2]
- Czech Republic
- Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) — Security Information Service[3]
- Iceland
- Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit
- Indonesia
- Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN)
- Kejaksaan Agung Republik Indonesia (KARI)
- Pusat Intelijen TNI Angkatan Darat abbreviated (Pusintelad)
- Japan
- National Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku), commonly known as "ja:公安警察, Kōan-Keisatsu, which means "public security police"" or shortly "公安, Kōan" in Japan.
- Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁, Kōanchōsa-chō)[7]
- SDF Intelligence Security Command (自衛隊情報保全隊 Jieitai Jōhō-Hozentai)
- 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)
- Philippines
- 300th Air Intelligence and Security Wing (300th AISW)
- Army Intelligence Regiment (AIR)
- National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)
- Naval Intelligence and Security Force (NISF)
- 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 Office of Police — in German, Bundesamt für Polizei (BAP); in French, Office fédéral de la police; in Italian, Ufficio federale di polizia[10]
- 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 Joint Intelligence (DJI)
- Internal Security Affairs Bureau (ISAB)
- National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
- Naval Intelligence Department (NID)
- Royal Thai Air Force Directorate of Intelligence (DI)
- Royal Thai Police Special Branch Bureau (SBB)
- Turkey
- Donanma İstihbarat Dairesi (DİD)
- Hava Kuvvetleri İstihbarat Dairesi (HKİD)
- Higher Counterterrorism Council[11]
- Jandarma İstihbarat Müdürlüğü (JİM)
- Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT)
- Ordu İstihbarat Dairesi (OİD)
- United Kingdom
- Counter Intelligence Operations Squadron (CIOS)
- Defence Intelligence (DI)
- Security Service, commonly known as MI5
- National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU)
- Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6
- 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)
Defunct counterintelligence organizations[edit]
These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization:
- 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"
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