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
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
  • 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) [8]
Lebanon
  • Special Agency to Combat Terrorism [9]
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
  • Federal Office of Police in German, Bundesamt für Polizei (BAP); in French, Office fédéral de la police; in Italian, Ufficio federale di polizia [10]
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 [11]
  • 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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