National Security Service (Somalia)

• SRSP
• 1986

President of Somalia
(1969–1991)

• 1969 Somali coup d'état
• Somali Democratic Republic
• Supreme Revolutionary Council
• Somali Latin alphabet
• Ogaden War
• Western Somali Liberation Front
• National Security Service

Overthrow

• 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• Somali Rebellion
• Somaliland War of Independence
• Isaaq genocide

The National Security Service (NSS) (Somali: Hay'ada Nabadsugida Qaranka, HNQ) was the primary intelligence agency of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1970 to 1990. The NSS was formed as the secret police under the government of Siad Barre in 1970, modelled after the KGB of the Soviet Union, and was formally dissolved in 1990 shortly before Barre's overthrow. In 2013, the Federal Government of Somalia re-established the NSS as the national intelligence service, renaming it the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA).