List of defunct intelligence agencies

This is a list of defunct intelligence agencies.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

• Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD)

Albania

• Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (Sigurimi) (Directorate of State Security)

Argentina

• Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion)
• Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)
• Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (CIDE) (State Information Coordination)
• División de Informaciones (Information Division)
• Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Evidenzbureau

Brazil

• Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service)
• Subsecretaria de Inteligência (SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence)

Bulgaria

• Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

Canada

• RCMP Security Service

Chile

• Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Directorate of Intelligence)
• Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)

China, Republic of

• Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
• National Committee of Investigations and Statistics

Colombia

• Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) (Administrative Department of Security)

Czechoslovakia

• Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS)
• Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR)
• Státní Bezpečnost (StB)

Finland

• Ministry of Interior
  • Etsivä keskuspoliisi (EK, 1919–1938)
  • Valtiollinen poliisi (Valpo I, 1939–1944)
  • Red Valpo (Valpo II, 1944–1948)
• Finnish Defence Forces
  • Intelligence Research Establishment (VKoeL, 1960–2014) – Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten
• Ministry of Defence
  • Military Intelligence Service (PVTK, 2007–2014) – Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto

France

• Deuxième Bureau (1871-1940)
• Renseignements Généraux (RG) (1937-2008)
• Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) (1944-1982)
• Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) (1944-2008)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

• Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security)
  • General Reconnaissance Administration (GDR) -- de:Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA)

German Reich

• Abwehr
• Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police)
• Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (Security Service)

Egypt

• State Security Investigations Service (SSIS)

Hong Kong

• Special Branch

Hungary

• Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department)
• Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority)

Israel

• ha-Lishka le-Kishrei Mada (Lekem or Lakam) (Bureau of Scientific Relations)

Italy

• Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA)
• Cabinet RS/33

Indonesia

• Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib)
• Badan Koordinasi Stabilitas Nasional (Bakorstanas)

Iran

• Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security)

Iraq

• Al-Amn al-‘Amm (Directorate of General Security)
• Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization)
• Al-Istikhabarat al-'Askariyya (Directorate of General Military Intelligence)
• Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Iraqi Intelligence Service)

Ireland

• Free State Army Intelligence Department ("Oriel House")
• Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
• Citizens' Defence Force

Japan

• Kempeitai
• Tokeitai
• Tokkō

Libya

• Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat

Manchukuo

• Hoankyoku

Netherlands

• Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (Interior Security Service)
• Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (?-1994)

Ottoman Empire

• Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa

Panama

• Policia Secreta Nacional (PSN) (La Secreta) (1909-60s first government secret agency)
• Guardia Silenciosa Panameñista (GUSIPA) (1930-40s short-lived secret service)
• 1.Estado Mayor Personal/Sec."E" Asuntos de Seguridad Nacional of PFD General Command
• Sub Jefatura de Inspectoria General of PFD General State Major Chieftain
• Comando General de la Comision de Defensa y Seguridad (COGECODESE) (security,defense and intelligence PNG/PFD main entity)
• Estado Mayor General ('Inteligencia') (G-2) (1950-80s PNG/PDFs military intelligence)
• Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DENI) (1960-1989)

Poland

• Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1918-1939)
  • Biuro Szyfrów (Cypher Bureau)
• Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1945-1954)
• Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1954-1956)
• Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (MSW) (1954-1990)
  • Departament I MSW
  • Departament II MSW
  • Służba Bezpieczeństwa MSW (SB-MSW) (1956-1990)
• Urząd Ochrony Państwa (UOP) (Office for State Protection) (1990-2001)
• Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego (1944-1957)
• Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna (WSW) (1957-1990)
• Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego LWP (1945-1951)
• Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1951-1990)

Portugal

• PIDE

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

• Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

• Agentes in rebus
• Areani
• Frumentarii
• Praetorian Guard

Romania

• Departamentul Securității Statului (Securitate) (Department of State Security) (1948-1991)

Russia

• Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or slang Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866-1917)
• Special Corps of Gendarmes (1836-1917)

Serbia

• Služba za istraživanje i dokumentaciju (SID), Service for Research and Documentation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Sri Lanka

• Special Branch

Singapore

• Special Branch

Somalia

• National Security Service (NSS)

South Africa

• Bureau of State Security (BOSS)

Soviet Union

• Cheka (1917-1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)
• Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (GPU) (1922-1923) (State Political Directorate)
• Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU) (1923–1934) (Joint State Political Directorate)
• Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del (NKVD) (1934–1946) (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
• Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD) (1946–1954) (Ministry for Internal Affairs)
• Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (MGB) (1943–1953) (Ministry for State Security)
• Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) (1954–1991) (Committee for State Security)

Spain

• Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre)

Sweden

• IB ("Informationsbyrån")

Turkey

• Millî Emniyet Hizmeti Riyâseti (M.E.H./MAH, between 1926 and 1965)

Uganda

State Research Bureau

United Kingdom

MI1 MI2 MI3 MI4 MI7 MI8 MI9 MI10 MI11

MI12 MI14 MI15 MI16 MI17 MI19 Naval Intelligence Division (NID) Special Operations Executive (SOE)

United States

• Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

North Vietnam

• Central Research Agency
• Central Office for South Vietnam

South Vietnam

• Central Intelligence Office
• Military Security Directorate
• Strategic Technical Directorate
• Research and Documentation Office
• Intelligence Directorate

Yugoslavia

• UDBA
• KOS (Kontraobaveštajna služba), Counterintelligence Service (General staff)

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies
• Secret service
• Secret police
• List of intelligence agencies