Defunct intelligence agencies include the following: The list of this article is not exhaustive.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

* Istikhbarat (–1978) * Da Afghanistan da Gato da Saatane Adara (AGSA) (1978–1979) * KhAD-e-Nezami (Military Intelligence) (1978-1992) * Komite-ye Amniyat-e Melli (KAM) (1979) * Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KhAD) (1980–1987) * ''Wazarat-e Amaniat-e Dowlati'' (WAD) (1987–1992) *

National Directorate of Security The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ; ) was the national intelligence agency, intelligence and security agency, security service of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, and it had field offices and ...

(NDS) (2002–2021)

Albania

* Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (

Sigurimi The Directorate of State Security (, DSSh), commonly called the ''Sigurimi'', was the National security, state security, Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence and secret police service of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. I ...

) (Directorate of State Security) (1944–1991)

Algeria

* Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) (1990–2016)

Argentina

* Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion) (late 1970s–2000) * Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center) (–2001) * Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (CIDE) (State Information Coordination) (1946–1955) * División de Informaciones (Information Division) (1946–1955) * Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information) (1955–1956)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

* Evidenzbureau (1850–1918)

Brazil

* Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service) (1964–1990) * Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna (DOI-CODI) (Internal Operations Department-Centre for Internal Defence Operations) (1969–1984) * Subsecretaria de Inteligência (SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence) (1990–1995)

Bulgaria

* Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS) (1964–1989)

Canada

* RCMP Security Service (1950–1984)

Chile

* Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Directorate of Intelligence) (1973–1977) * Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)

China / Taiwan

Embroidered Uniform Guard The Embroidered Uniform Guard () was the imperial secret police that served the emperors of the Ming dynasty in China. The guard was founded by the Hongwu Emperor, founding emperor of Ming, in 1368 to serve as his personal bodyguards. In 1369, ...

(1368–1645) *

Eastern Depot Eastern Depot or Eastern Bureau () was a Ming dynasty spy and secret police agency run by eunuchs. It was created by the Yongle Emperor. History After the Yongle Emperor usurped the throne in 1402 from his nephew, the Jianwen Emperor, he attempt ...

(1420–1644) * Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (1927–1946) * National Committee of Investigations and Statistics (1935–1949) * Taiwan Garrison Command (1945–1992)

Colombia

* Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) (Administrative Department of Security) (1960–2011)

Confederate States of America

* Confederate Secret Service (1861–1865)

Czechoslovakia

* Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS) * Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR) * Státní Bezpečnost (StB) (1945–1990)

Dutch East Indies

* Politieke Inlichtingendienst (PID) (1916–1945)

Ecuador

* National Intelligence Secretariat (SENAIN) (2009–2018)

Egypt

State Security Investigations Service The State Security Investigations Service ( ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior (Egypt), ...

(SSIS) (1913–2011)

Finland

* Ministry of Interior ** Etsivä keskuspoliisi (EK, 1919–1938) ** Valtiollinen poliisi (Valpo I, 1939–1944) ** Red Valpo (Valpo II, 1944–1948) *

Finnish Defence Forces The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) (; ) are the military of Finland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the Finnish Army, the Finnish Navy, and the Finnish Air Force. In wartime, the Finnish Border Guard becomes part of the Finnish Defence For ...

** Intelligence Research Establishment (VKoeL, 1960–2014) – ''Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten'' * Ministry of Defence ** Military Intelligence Service (PVTK, 2007–2014) – ''Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto''

France

* Secret du Roi (King's Secret) (1746-1774) * Deuxième Bureau (Second Bureau) (1871–1940) * Renseignements Généraux (General Intelligence) (RG) (1937–2008) * Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations) (BCRA) (1940-1943) , existed under different names along its existence. BCRA is the most known. * (General Directorate of Special Services) (DGSS) (1943-1944) * Direction Générale des Études et Recherches (General Directorate for Studies and Research) (DGER) (1944-1945) *

Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or ...

(External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service) (SDECE) (1945–1982) * Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) (DST) (1944–2008) * Co-ordination unit of the fight against terrorism (Unité de coordination de la lutte anti-terroriste) (UCLAT) (1984-2020)

Federal Republic of Germany

* Gehlen Organization ("The Org", "Zipper") (1946–1956) * (ANBw/ZNBw) (1956-2007)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

* Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or

Stasi The Ministry for State Security (, ; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the (, an abbreviation of ), was the Intelligence agency, state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive pol ...

) ( Ministry for State Security) (1950–1990) **

Main Directorate for Reconnaissance The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (; , ) was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security (''Stasi''), the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1955 to 1990. The HVA was an in ...

(HVA) (1955–1990) * Military Intelligence of the National People's Army (Militärische Aufklärung der Nationalen Volksarmee) (1956–1990)

German Reich

Abwehr The (German language, German for ''resistance'' or ''defence'', though the word usually means ''counterintelligence'' in a military context) ) was the German military intelligence , military-intelligence service for the ''Reichswehr'' and the ...

(1920–1945) * Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost (Department Foreign Armies East) (1938–1945) * Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police) (1933–1945) * Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) (Secret Field Police) (1939–1945) *

Sicherheitsdienst ' (, "Security Service"), full title ' ("Security Service of the ''Reichsführer-SS''"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the Schutzstaffel, SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence ...

(SD) (Security Service) (1931–1945) * Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) (Reich Security Service) (1933–1945) * B-Dienst (Observation Service) (1918–1945) * Naval Intelligence Service, also called Nachrichten-Abteilung (1899–1919) * Abteilung III b (Department III b) (1889–1918) *

Prussian Secret Police The Prussian Secret Police () was the secret police of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1851 the Police Union of German States was set up by the police forces of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Baden, and Württem ...

(1851–1933)

Haiti

* Service d'Intelligence National (SIN) (National Intelligence Service) (1986–1991)

Hong Kong

Special Branch Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence in Policing in the United Kingdom, British, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, ...

(1930–1995)

Hungary

* Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department) (1948–1956) * Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority) (1945–1956)

Israel

* ha-Lishka le-Kishrei Mada (Lekem or Lakam) (Bureau of Scientific Relations) (1957–1986)

Italy

* Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo ( OVRA) (1927–1945) * Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) (1925–1949) * Servizio Informazioni Segrete (SIS) (1931–1943)

Indonesia

* Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib) (1965–1988) * Badan Koordinasi Stabilitas Nasional (Bakorstanas) (1988–2000)

Iran

* Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security) (1957–1979) * Rokn-e-Dovvom (Second Bureau) (1926–1979)

Iraq

* Al-Amn al-‘Amm (Directorate of General Security) (1922–2003) * Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization) (1983–2003) * Al-Istikhabarat al-'Askariyya (Directorate of General Military Intelligence) (1932–2003) * Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Iraqi Intelligence Service) (1973–2003)

Ireland

* Free State Army Intelligence Department ("Oriel House") (1921–1923) *

Criminal Investigation Department The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes criminal investigation, detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is disti ...

(CID) (1921–1923) * Citizens' Defence Force (1922)

Japan

* Kempeitai (1881–1945) * Tokkeitai * Tokkō (1911–1945)

Libya

* Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat (–2011)

Malaysia

* Malayan Security Service (1939–1948)

Manchukuo

* Hoankyoku (1937–1945)

Netherlands

* Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (Interior Security Service) (1947–2002) * Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (1946–1994) * Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service (NEFIS) (1942–1945) * Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (NIGIS) (1942–1945)

Ottoman Empire

* Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa (1913–1918)

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)

Philippines

* Philippine Constabulary – Office of Special Investigations (PC-OSI) (1901–1991) * Philippine Constabulary – National Constabulary Investigations Service (PC-NCIS) (1901–1936) * National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA) (1972–1987) * Civil Intelligence and Security Agency (CISA) (1972–1987)

Poland

* Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1918–1939) **

Biuro Szyfrów The Cipher Bureau ( Polish: ''Biuro Szyfrów'', ) was the interwar Polish General Staff's Second Department's unit charged with SIGINT and both cryptography (the ''use'' of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the ''study'' of ciphers and cod ...

(Cypher Bureau) (1919–1945) ** Estezet (STZ) (1941–1945) ** Polish Agency of Trade Information (PAIH) (1932–1939) * 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 The Office of State Protection ( Polish: ''Urząd Ochrony Państwa'' (, UOP)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 The International and State Defense Police (; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the '' Estado Novo'' regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigrati ...

(1933–1969)

Qatar

* General Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat) * Investigation and State Security Service (mubahith)

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

* Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

Agentes in rebus The ''agentes in rebus'' (, or , ''magistrianoí'', ' magister's men'.) were the late Roman imperial and Byzantine courier service and general agents of the central government from the 4th to the 7th centuries. History The exact date of their ...

(4th–7th century) * Areani * Bureau of Barbarians * Frumentarii *

Praetorian Guard The Praetorian Guard (Latin language, Latin: ''cohortes praetoriae'') was the imperial guard of the Imperial Roman army that served various roles for the Roman emperor including being a bodyguard unit, counterintelligence, crowd control and ga ...

(27 BC–312 AD)

Romania

* Secția a-II-a (Section II) (1859–1908) * Siguranța Statului (''Siguranța'') (State Security) (1908–1940) * Serviciul Special de Informații (Special Intelligence Service) (1940–1944) * Serviciul de Informații (Intelligence Service) (1944–1948) * Departamentul Securității Statului (''Securitate'') (Department of State Security) (1948–1991)

Russia

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

* Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (1826–1880) * Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or ''slang'' Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866–1917) *

Special Corps of Gendarmes The Separate Corps of Gendarmes () was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its main responsibilities were law enforcement and state security. The responsi ...

(1836–1917)

RSFSR (1917–1922)

Cheka The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), ...

(1917–1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)

Russian Federation (1991–)

* Federal Counterintelligence Service (1993–1995)

Serbia

Service for Research and Documentation The Service for Research and Documentation (; abbr. SID) was the foreign intelligence agency of Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , na ...

(SID) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1949–2007)

Sri Lanka

(1966–1970)

Singapore

* Criminal Intelligence Department (1918–1933) *

(1933–1939) * Singapore Special Branch (1948–1966) * Internal Security Department (1966–1970)

Somalia

* National Security Service (NSS) (1970–1990)

South Africa

* Bureau of State Security (BOSS) (1969–1980)

Soviet Union

(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) * (1991)

Spain

Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa The (; CESID) was the Spain, Spanish intelligence agency before the current National Intelligence Centre (Spain), Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) took over as its successor in 2002. History Following the dissolution of the Information Ser ...

(CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre) (1977–2002) * Political-Social Brigade (BPS/BSI) (1941–1978) * Servicio de Información Militar (SIM/MIS) (1937-1939)

Sweden

* IB ("Informationsbyrån") (1973)

Syria

National Security Bureau (1966-2024) * General Intelligence Directorate (1971-2024) * Political Security Directorate (1971-2024) * Military Intelligence Directorate (1969-2024) * Air Force Intelligence Directorate (1970-2024)

Turkey

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

Uganda

* State Research Bureau

Ukraine

* Kontrrazvedka (1919–1921)

United Kingdom

* MI1 (1915–1919) * MI2 (–1941) * MI3 (1914–1945) * MI4 (1915–1991) * MI7 (1915–1940) * MI8 (1914–1945) * MI9 (1939–1945) * MI10 (1940–1961) * MI11 (–1945) * MI12 * MI14 (–1943) * MI15 (1942–) * MI16 (1945–) * MI17 * MI19 (1940–) * Naval Intelligence Division (NID) (1912–1964) *

Special Operations Executive Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local Resistance during World War II, resistance movements during World War II. ...

(SOE) (1940–1946)

United States

Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency The Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (Air Force ISR Agency or AFISRA) was until 29 September 2014 a :Field Operating Agency, field operating agency of the United States Air Force headquartered at Lackland Air Force ...

(1948–2014) *

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the first intelligence agency of the United States, formed during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines ...

(OSS) (1942–1945) * The Pond (1942–1955) *

National Drug Intelligence Center The United States National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), established in 1993, was a component of the U.S. Department of Justice and a member of the Intelligence Community. ThGeneral Counterdrug Intelligence Plan implemented in February 2000, ...

(1993–2012)

North Vietnam

* Central Research Agency

South Vietnam

* Central Intelligence Office (1961–1975) * Military Security Directorate * Strategic Technical Directorate * Research and Documentation Office *

Intelligence Directorate Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ...

Vietnam

** Tổng cục An ninh (Tổng cục I) (General Department of Security or First General Department) ** Tổng cục Tình báo Công an (Tổng cục V, or TC V) (General Department of Public Security Intelligence or Fifth General Department)

Yugoslavia

UDBA The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acrony ...

(1946–1991) * KOS (''Kontraobaveštajna služba''), Counterintelligence Service (General staff) (1946–1992)

References

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