This is a list of defunct intelligence agencies.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

* Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD) (1980-1992) * National Directorate of Security (NDS) (2002-2021)

Albania

* Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (Sigurimi) (Directorate of State Security) (1944-1991)

Algeria

* Direction des Services de Sécurité (1990-2016)

Argentina

* Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion) (late 1970's-2000) * Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center) * Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (CIDE) (State Information Coordination) * División de Informaciones (Information Division) *

Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado The ''Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado'' (Secretariat of State Information) was an Argentine intelligence agency, created in 1955 by National Executive Decree No. 776 of January 20 during the government of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. It was the ...

(SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Evidenzbureau The k.u.k. Evidenzbureau (modernized spelling ''Evidenzbüro'') was the directorate of military intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Foundation Founded in 1850 as the first permanent military intell ...

(1850-1918)

Brazil

* Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service) (1964-1990) *

Subsecretaria de Inteligência The Subsecretaria de Inteligência (Under-Secretariat of Intelligence) or SSI was the Brazilian Intelligence Agency that replaced the Brazilian military junta intelligence agency called the SNI. In 1995, the SSI was replaced by the ABIN. This Subs ...

(SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence) (1990-1995)

Bulgaria

* Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

Canada

* RCMP Security Service (1950-1984)

Chile

Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( en, National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo". Established in November ...

(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 in 1368 to serve as his personal bodyguards. In 1369 it became an imperial militar ...

(1368-1645) * Eastern Depot (1420-1644) * Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (1927-1946) * National Committee of Investigations and Statistics (1935-1949) * Taiwan Garrison Command

Colombia

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

Czechoslovakia

Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General * Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies * Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states ...

(FSZS) * Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR) *

Státní Bezpečnost State Security ( cs, Státní bezpečnost, sk, Štátna bezpečnosť) or StB / ŠtB, was the secret police force in communist Czechoslovakia from 1945 to its dissolution in 1990. Serving as an intelligence and counter-intelligence agency, it de ...

(StB)

Finland

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

Red Valpo Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...

(Valpo II, 1944–1948) * Finnish Defence Forces ** Intelligence Research Establishment (VKoeL, 1960–2014) – ''Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten'' *Ministry of Defence ** Military Intelligence Service (PVTK, 2007–2014) – ''Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto''

France

* Deuxième Bureau (1871–1940) * Renseignements Généraux (RG) (1937–2008) * Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) (1944–1982) * Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) (1944–2008)

Federal Republic of Germany

* Gehlen Organization ("The Org", "Zipper") (1946-1956) *Office/Center for Intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces (ANBw/ZNBw)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Ministerium für Staatssicherheit The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maintaining state authori ...

(MfS or

Stasi The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the Intelligence agency, state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maint ...

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

Main Directorate for Reconnaissance The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (german: ; german: , ) 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. ...

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

German Reich

Abwehr The ''Abwehr'' (German for ''resistance'' or ''defence'', but the word usually means ''counterintelligence'' in a military context; ) was the German military-intelligence service for the ''Reichswehr'' and the ''Wehrmacht'' from 1920 to 1944. A ...

(1920-1945) *

Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost Foreign Armies East, or Fremde Heere Ost (FHO), was a military intelligence organization of the ''Oberkommando des Heeres'' (OKH), the Supreme High Command of the German Army during World War II. It focused on analyzing the Soviet Union and other Ea ...

(Department Foreign Armies East) * Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police) (1933-1945) *

Geheime Feldpolizei The ''Geheime Feldpolizei'', short: ''GFP'' (), , was the secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War (1945). Its units carried out plain-clothed security work in the field - such as counter-espionage, ...

(GFP) (Secret Field Police) (1939-1945) * Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (Security Service) (1931-1945) *

B-Dienst The ''B-Dienst'' (german: Beobachtungsdienst, observation service), also called x''B-Dienst'', X-''B-Dienst'' and χ''B-Dienst'', was a Department of the German Naval Intelligence Service (german: Marinenachrichtendienst, MND III) of the OKM, t ...

(Observation Service) (1918-1945) *

Naval Intelligence Service A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...

, also called Nachrichten-Abteilung (1899-1919) *

Abteilung III b ''Abteilung III b'' was the domestic counterintelligence branch of the Imperial German Army from 1889 until the end of the First World War. Initially created as a section in the Prussian General Staff in 1889 and named ''Sektion III b'', it was u ...

(Department III b) (1889-1918) * Prussian Secret Police (1851-1933)

Egypt

State Security Investigations Service The State Security Investigations Service ( arz, مباحث أمن الدولة ) 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 Eg ...

(SSIS) (1913-2011)

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) *

Államvédelmi Hatóság The State Protection Authority ( hu, Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH) was the secret police of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1945 to 1956. The ÁVH was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's KGB in Hungary responsible ...

(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)

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)

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 (CID) (1921-1923) *

Citizens' Defence Force The Citizens' Defence Force (1922) was a unit of former British Army soldiers and Irish Volunteers organised by Ireland as a semi-secret group of about 100 operatives. It was financed from the Secret Service budget to mount foot patrols and gather ...

Japan

* Kempeitai (1881-1945) * Tokeitai * Tokkō (1911-1945)

Libya

* Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat

Malaysia

* Malayan Security Service (1939-1948)

Manchukuo

* Hoankyoku (1937-1945)

Netherlands

Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst The General Intelligence and Security Service ( nl, Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, AIVD; ) is the intelligence and security agency of the Netherlands, tasked with domestic, foreign and signals intelligence and protecting national se ...

(BVD) (Interior Security Service) (1947-2002) *

Inlichtingendienst Buitenland The General Intelligence and Security Service ( nl, Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, AIVD; ) is the intelligence and security agency of the Netherlands, tasked with domestic, foreign and signals intelligence and protecting national se ...

(IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (1946–1994)

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 A ' () is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as "department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a ...

(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, in 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 ...

(Cypher Bureau) **

Estezet Estezet (STZ) was the code name of a Polish intelligence service branch established in New York City in August 1941 when a cooperative agreement was signed between Polish and American spy services. History The branch was set up by Section II (Odd ...

(STZ) **

Polish Agency of Trade Information Polish Agency of Trade Information (Polish language: Polska Agencja Informacji Handlowej, PAIH) was a Polish industrial espionage agency, formed in Warsaw, in December 1932. Officially, it was presented as a private body, but the PAIH was financia ...

(PAIH) *

Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego The Ministry of Public Security ( pl, Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego), commonly known as UB or later SB, was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic. From 1945 to 1954 it w ...

(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 language, Polish: ''Urząd Ochrony Państwa'' (, UOP)

(UOP) (Office for State Protection) (1990–2001) *

Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego ''Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego'' (''GZI WP'' - "Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army"), was a name of a first military Police and counter-espionage organ of the Polish People's Army in communist Poland during and aft ...

(1944–1957) *

Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna The Internal Military Service, ( pl, Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, ''WSW'') Szefostwo, was an armed military counterintelligence, military police, and military secret police within the structure of Ministry of National Defense or (MON). It se ...

(WSW) (1957–1990) * Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego LWP (1945–1951) * Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1951–1990)

Portugal

* PIDE (1933-1969)

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

* Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

* Agentes in rebus (4th-7th century) * Areani *

Bureau of Barbarians The Bureau of Barbarians ( la, links=no, scrinium barbarorum, el, links=no, , ''skrinion tōn barbarōn''), was a department of government in the Eastern Roman Empire. It is first recorded in the of the fifth century, where it came under the cont ...

* Frumentarii * Praetorian Guard (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

* Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or ''slang'' Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866–1917) * Special Corps of Gendarmes (1836–1917) * KGB * NKVD (1934-1946)

Serbia

Service for Research and Documentation The Service for Research and Documentation ( sr, Služba za Istraživanje i Dokumentaciju; abbr. SID) was the foreign intelligence agency of Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a lan ...

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

Sri Lanka

(1966-1970)

Singapore

Somalia

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

South Africa

Bureau of State Security The Bureau for State Security ( af, Buro vir Staatsveiligheid; also known as the Bureau of State Security (BOSS)) was the main South African state intelligence agency from 1969 to 1980. A high-budget and secretive institution, it reported directly ...

(BOSS) (1969-1980)

Soviet Union

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

(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)

Spain

* Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre) (1977-2002) *Political-Social Brigade (BPS/BSI) (1941-1978)

Sweden

* IB ("Informationsbyrån")

Turkey

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

Uganda

* State Research Bureau

Ukraine

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United Kingdom

MI1 MI1 or British ''Military Intelligence, Section 1'' was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up during World War I. It contained "C&C", which was responsible for code breaking. I ...

MI2 MI2, the British Military Intelligence Section 2, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was originally set up to handle geographic information. MI2a handled the Americas (excluding Ca ...

MI3 MI3, the British Military Intelligence Section 3, was a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was originally set up to handle geographical information. Its subsections in 1914 included: * MI3 ...

MI4 MI4 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, Section 4, part of the War Office. It was responsible for aerial reconnaissance and interpretation. It developed into the JARIC intelligence agency. The present day su ...

MI7 MI7 was a branch of the British War Office’s Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda. The branch was originally established in the First World War and disbanded after the signing of the Arm ...

MI8 MI8, or ''Military Intelligence, Section 8'' was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), b ...

MI9 MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a highly secret department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945. During World War II it had two principal tasks: (1) assisting in the escape of Allied prisoners of war (P ...

* MI10 *

MI11 MI11, or Military Intelligence, Section 11, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. During the Second World War, MI11 was responsible for field security: protecting British military person ...

* MI12 * MI14 * MI15 * MI16 * MI17 *

MI19 MI19 was a section of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. During the Second World War it was responsible for obtaining information from enemy prisoners of war. It was originally created in December 1940 as ...

* Naval Intelligence Division (NID) * Special Operations Executive (SOE)

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 of the United States Air Force headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. On that date ...

(1948-2014) *

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States 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 for all branc ...

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

North Vietnam

* Central Research Agency

South Vietnam

Central Intelligence Office The Central Intelligence Office (vi: ''Phủ Đặc ủy Trung ương Tình báo'') was the national strategic intelligence agency for the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), headquarters in Saigon. It was created in 1961, via Ex ...

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

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 ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...

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

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