List of counterintelligence organizations

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Counterintelligence organizations and agencies attempt to prevent foreign intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against the governments they serve.

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Active counterintelligence organizations

Currently active counterintelligence organizations include the following. For former agencies, see the separate list below.

Australia
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Brazil
Brunei
Cambodia
  • Cambodian National Police Central Security Department (CSD)
  • Military Intelligence Department (MID)
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
  • Elliniki Astynomia Dieufthinsi Esoterikon Hypotheseon (DEH)
  • Hellenic National Intelligence Service [4] (NIS-EYP) Sub-Directorate for International Terrorism and Organized Crime [5]
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
  • National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) [7]
Lebanon
  • Special Agency to Combat Terrorism [8]
Malaysia
Myanmar
Netherlands
New Zealand
North Korea
Pakistan
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)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
Serbia
Sweden
Switzerland
  • Fedpol
  • Federal Intelligence Service (FIS)
  • Militärischer Nachrichtendienst (MND)
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
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)
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam

Defunct counterintelligence organizations

These organizations are now defunct, possibly absorbed by a successor organization:

Ireland
Nazi Germany
Empire of Japan
Poland
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union and Imperial Russia
South Korea
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States

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