Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage,sabotage,assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by,for,or on behalf of foreign powers,organizations or persons.
The State Intelligence Service,commonly known by its acronym SHISH,is the main intelligence agency of Albania. It was preceded by SHIK.
SMERSH was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier,but officially announced only on 14 April 1943. The name SMERSH was coined by Joseph Stalin. The formal justification for its creation was to subvert the attempts by Nazi German forces to infiltrate the Red Army on the Eastern Front.
The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the primary investigative law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate major criminal activities involving the Navy and Marine Corps,though its broad mandate includes national security,counterintelligence,counterterrorism,cyberwarfare,and the protection of U.S. naval assets worldwide. NCIS is the successor organization to the former Naval Investigative Service (NIS),which was established by the Office of Naval Intelligence after the Second World War.
The Ministry of State Security,abbreviated as MGB,was a ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1953 which functioned as the country's secret police. The ministry inherited the intelligence and state security responsibilities of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB). The MGB was led by Viktor Abakumov from 1946 to 1951,then by Semyon Ignatiev until Stalin's death in 1953,upon which it was merged into an enlarged Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).
The Department for Protection of the People,commonly known under its Serbo-Croatian acronym as OZNA,was the security agency of Communist Yugoslavia that existed between 1944 and 1946.
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers serves as an interagency law enforcement training body for 105 United States government federal law enforcement agencies. The stated mission of FLETC is to "...train those who protect our homeland". Through the Rural Policing Institute (RPI) and the Office of State and Local Training,it provides tuition-free and low-cost training to state,local,campus and tribal law enforcement agencies.
Khaled El-Masri is a German and Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003,and handed over to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While in CIA custody,he was flown to Afghanistan,where he was held at a black site and routinely interrogated,beaten,strip-searched,sodomized,and subjected to other cruel forms of inhumane and degrading treatment and torture. After El-Masri held hunger strikes,and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pit",the CIA finally admitted his arrest was a mistake and released him. He is believed to be among an estimated 3,000 detainees,including several key leaders of al Qaeda,whom the CIA captured from 2001 to 2005,in its campaign to dismantle terrorist networks.
The Australian Intelligence Community (AIC) and the National Intelligence Community (NIC) or National Security Community of the Australian Government are the collectives of statutory intelligence agencies,policy departments,and other government agencies concerned with protecting and advancing the national security and national interests of the Commonwealth of Australia. The intelligence and security agencies of the Australian Government have evolved since the Second World War and the Cold War and saw transformation and expansion during the Global War on Terrorism with military deployments in Afghanistan,Iraq and against ISIS in Syria. Key international and national security issues for the Australian Intelligence Community include terrorism and violent extremism,cybersecurity,transnational crime,the rise of China,and Pacific regional security.
Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) was a United States Department of Defense (DoD) agency whose size and budget were classified. The CIFA was created by a directive from the Secretary of Defense,then Donald Rumsfeld,on February 19,2002. On August 8,2008,it was announced that CIFA would be shut down. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) absorbed most of the components and authorities of the CIFA into the Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center,which was later consolidated into the Defense Clandestine Service.
A national security letter (NSL) is an administrative subpoena issued by the United States government to gather information for national security purposes. NSLs do not require prior approval from a judge. The Stored Communications Act,Fair Credit Reporting Act,and Right to Financial Privacy Act authorize the United States government to seek such information that is "relevant" to an authorized national security investigation. By law,NSLs can request only non-content information,for example,transactional records and phone numbers dialed,but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails.
The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) is the primary intelligence gathering and analysis arm of the Government of the Philippines in charge of carrying out overt,covert,and clandestine intelligence activities. The NICA directs,coordinates,and integrates all intelligence activities,both foreign and domestic,concerning national security,serving as the leading intelligence collector of the national government,focusing on the country's strategic intelligence requirements. It is mandated to prepare intelligence estimate on local and foreign situation for the formulation of national security policies by the President and the National Security Council.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex. It was established in 2006 by the merger of pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. Due to its central role,OICI is designated DOE's Headquarters Intelligence. As a component of the United States Intelligence Community in addition to the Department of Energy,OICI reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Energy.
The counter-terrorism page primarily deals with special police or military organizations that carry out arrest or direct combat with terrorists.
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence,commonly referred to by the acronym UBK,was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. Its headquarters are located in Skopje,and the agency is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Government agencies in Bangladesh are state controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Bangladesh. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations,allowed to control agencies by policy decisions. Some of the work of the government is carried out through state enterprises or limited companies.
The government of Afghanistan,officially called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,is the central government of Afghanistan,a unitary state. Under the leadership of the Taliban,the government is a theocracy and an emirate with political power concentrated in the hands of a supreme leader and his clerical advisors,collectively referred to as the Leadership. The Leadership makes all major policy decisions behind closed doors,which are then implemented by the country's civil service and judiciary. As Afghanistan is an Islamic state,governance is based on Sharia law and Pashtunwali,which the Taliban enforces strictly through extensive social and cultural policy.
