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 primary 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 law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate 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 Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is Germany's federal domestic intelligence agency. Together with the Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz (LfV) at the state level,the federal agency is tasked with intelligence-gathering on efforts against the liberal democratic basic order,the existence and security of the federation or one of its states,and the peaceful coexistence of peoples;with counter-intelligence;and with protective security and counter-sabotage. The BfV reports to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and tasks and powers are regulated in the Bundesverfassungsschutzgesetz. The President is Thomas Haldenwang;he was appointed in 2018.
The MGB,an initialism for Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti SSSR,was the name of the Soviet state security apparatus dealing with internal and external security issues:secret police duties,foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence,etc. from 1946 to 1953.
The Department for People's Protection,commonly known under its Serbo-Croatian acronym as OZNA,was the security agency of Communist Yugoslavia that existed between 1944 and 1946.
The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is a division of the United States Coast Guard that investigates crimes where the U.S. Coast Guard has an interest. It is composed of civilian (GS-1811),active duty,reserve enlisted,and warrant officer special agents.
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.
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 authorized national security investigations. 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 Israeli Intelligence Community is made up of Aman,Mossad and Shabak.
The Ministry of Home Affairs,or simply the Home Ministry,is a ministry of the Government of India. It is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. It is headed by Minister of Home Affairs.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI),also abbreviated IN,DOE-IN,DOE/IN,I&CI,or OIC,was established in 2006 by the merger of pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. It is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex;due to this 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.
Ljube Boškoski,known among his supporters as "Brother Ljube",is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of North Macedonia.
The counter-terrorism page primarily deals with special police or military organizations that carry out arrest or direct combat with terrorists. This page deals with the other aspects of counter-terrorism:
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,which the Taliban enforces strictly through extensive social and cultural policy.
