Intelligence agencies

Government controlled organisations devoted to spying, counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, communications interception, cryptography and other less savoury activities including assassination, arms-sales and the overthrown of unfriendly regimes.

Intelligence agencies, past and present:

Active

• Russian Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, FSB
• Russian [Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki]?, SVR?
• Russian [Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie]?, GRU?
• US National Security Agency, NSA
• US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA
• US [Defense Intelligence Agency]?, DIA?
• US [Air Intelligence Agency]?, AIA?
• US Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI
• British [Security Service]?, MI5?
• British [Secret Intelligence Service]?, MI6
• British Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ
• British Joint Intelligence Committee, JIC
• French [Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale]?, SGDN?
• German Bundesnachrichtendienst?, BND?
• Israeli ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim, Mossad
• Israeli [Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali]?, [Shin Bet]?
• Polish Urzad Ochrony Panstwa, UOP

Inactive

• Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti, KGB
• British Special Operations Executive, SOE
• US Office of Strategic Services, OSS
• Afghanistan Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati, KHAD
• Polish [Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa]?, SB?
• French [Deuxieme Bureau]?