Counterintelligence organizations and agencies attempt to prevent foreign intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against the governments they serve.
Active counterintelligence organizations
Currently active counterintelligence organizations include the following. For former agencies, see the separate list below.
- 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]
- Czech Republic
- Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS) — Security Information Service[3]
- Iceland
- Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra - National Security Unit
- Iran
- Farmândehiye Entezâmiye Jomhuriye Eslâmiye Irân (Faraja)
- Oghab 2
- Parallel Intelligence Organization (PIO)
- Rêxistina Dijî Îstîxbarata Pasdaran (RDIP)
- Rêxistina Kontraîstixbarata Arteş (RKA)
- Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran (VAJA)
- SAHEFAJA
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Fedpol
- Federal Intelligence Service (FIS)
- Militärischer Nachrichtendienst (MND)
- Slovakia
- Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) — National Security Bureau
- 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)
- 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)
Defunct counterintelligence organizations
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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