Agencies
Every agency on the site, grouped by mandate — foreign intelligence, signals & cyber, military, domestic security, law enforcement. Within each group, sorted by country then by name. Pages marked in progress have stub entries; full references are being written progressively.
Foreign intelligence · 26
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Australia's foreign human-intelligence service, established in 1952 and not publicly acknowledged by the Australian government until 1977.
General Intelligence Service
Egypt's principal foreign intelligence service, established under President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954 and historically a regional intelligence hub for the Arab world.
DGSE Service Technique
The signals-intelligence and cyber-collection arm of France's foreign-intelligence service — the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. Substantially less publicly attested than the Anglo equivalents, but disclosed in detail through 2015 Le Monde reporting on French satellite-and-cable signals collection and through 2020–2024 academic and parliamentary documentation. The Service Technique operates France's strategic SIGINT collection infrastructure and the supporting cryptanalytic and cyber-operational capability.
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure
France's principal foreign intelligence service, reorganized from the SDECE in 1982 and combining human, signals, and paramilitary capabilities under the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
Federal Intelligence Service
The Federal Republic of Germany's foreign intelligence service, with origins in the post-war Organisation Gehlen and a controversial inheritance of personnel from the wartime Wehrmacht intelligence apparatus.
Research and Analysis Wing
India's principal foreign intelligence service, established in 1968 by separation from the Intelligence Bureau in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.
IRGC Intelligence Organisation
The intelligence organisation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, elevated to ministry-equivalent status in 2009 and operating in parallel — and at times in tension — with the civilian Ministry of Intelligence.
Ministry of Intelligence
Iran's principal civilian intelligence ministry, established in 1984 to consolidate the post-revolutionary intelligence functions previously handled by SAVAMA and revolutionary committees.
Iraqi National Intelligence Service
Iraq's principal civilian intelligence service, established in 2004 under US tutelage following the dissolution of the Saddam-era Mukhabarat services.
Mossad
Israel's foreign intelligence service — formally the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations — reporting directly to the Prime Minister and responsible for foreign HUMINT, covert action, and counter-terrorism abroad.
General Intelligence Directorate
Jordan's principal intelligence service, reporting directly to the King and widely regarded among Western and regional services for counter-terrorism work in the Levant and the broader region.
Direction Générale des Études et de la Documentation
Morocco's foreign intelligence service, established in 1973 with a particular focus on the Western Sahara conflict, regional Maghreb relations, and Moroccan diaspora communities.
Reconnaissance General Bureau
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's principal foreign intelligence and special-operations service, established in 2009 by consolidation of multiple predecessor agencies and the principal organization to which Western governments attribute substantial DPRK cyber operations.
Inter-Services Intelligence
Pakistan's principal intelligence service, military-led and unusual among comparable services in combining foreign-intelligence collection, counter-intelligence, and a substantial domestic political role within a single agency.
Foreign Intelligence Service
The Russian Federation's foreign intelligence service, direct successor to the KGB First Chief Directorate and headquartered at Yasenevo, southwest of Moscow.
SVR cyber operations
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation's principal computer-network-exploitation effort — the cyber-collection arm responsible for the 2014–15 White House and State Department intrusions, the 2016 Democratic National Committee initial access, the 2020 SolarWinds / SUNBURST supply-chain compromise, and the 2020–21 COVID-19 vaccine-research collection campaign. Publicly attributed to the SVR by the United States and United Kingdom in April 2021.
General Intelligence Presidency
Saudi Arabia's principal foreign intelligence service, headed by senior princes of the House of Saud across most of its history and reporting directly to the King through the Royal Diwan.
General Intelligence Directorate
Under the Assad governments (1971–2024), the principal civilian intelligence service of the Syrian Arab Republic and one of four parallel Mukhabarat services central to the regime's repression and the documented record of war crimes during the post-2011 civil war. The Assad government fell in December 2024.
National Intelligence Organization
Türkiye's principal foreign and domestic intelligence service, substantially reorganised under President Erdoğan into a politically aligned service with expanded authorities for foreign operations.
Secret Intelligence Service
The United Kingdom's foreign human-intelligence service, popularly known as MI6, established in 1909 as the foreign section of the Secret Service Bureau.
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
The State Department's intelligence and analysis bureau — one of the smallest IC components but historically the most analytically respected. Roots in the post-1945 OSS Research and Analysis Branch consolidated into State.
Central Intelligence Agency
The principal foreign human-intelligence and covert-action service of the United States, created in 1947 as successor to the wartime Office of Strategic Services.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The United States agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of geospatial intelligence, including imagery and mapping for both military operations and national policy.
National Reconnaissance Office
The United States agency responsible for the design, construction, launch, and operation of intelligence-collection satellites. The Agency's existence was officially classified until 1992.
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
The Department of Energy's intelligence and counterintelligence component. Foreign-nuclear-programme analytical work; counterintelligence for the national-laboratory complex; the institutional bridge between the Intelligence Community and the DOE national-laboratory scientific establishment.
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
The Department of the Treasury's intelligence directorate, established 2004. The Office of Intelligence and Analysis within TFI is the formal Intelligence Community member; the broader directorate also houses the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and Treasury sanctions enforcement.
How the index is organised
This index groups every intelligence agency on the site by mandate — foreign intelligence, signals & cyber, military, domestic security, law enforcement, with coordination services at the top. Within each group, entries are sorted by country and then by name. The grouping mirrors the per-country agency lists so the typology stays consistent across the site. Each card shows the agency's country of origin, its formal name and acronym, and a short editorial description. Click through to the agency page for the full reference entry — founding date, statutory basis, jurisdiction, parent ministry, headquarters, official channels, and a structured account of role, history, and notable operations footnoted to primary sources.
Coverage spans foreign-intelligence services (the CIA, SIS, DGSE, BND, GRU, SVR, MSS, RAW, and so on), domestic-security services (MI5, FBI, BfV, ASIO, DGSI), and signals-intelligence agencies (NSA, GCHQ, CSE, ASD, GCSB, FAPSI's successors). Entries marked in progress are stubs awaiting full reference treatment; they are kept on the index so the navigation between related services is preserved while the detailed text is written.
If you know the country but not the acronym, start at the Countries index. If you are looking for an operation, scandal, or theme that crosses agencies, see the Dossiers. The methodology page documents how operations are categorised as confirmed, alleged, or disputed.
