Countries
Each country covers its national intelligence apparatus — foreign intelligence services, domestic security agencies, and signals operations — with separate pages for each agency.
What's on each country page
The country pages on this site collect what is publicly documented about a state's intelligence services — the agencies themselves, their statutory basis where it exists, the reporting line into the political executive, and the public record of operations and controversies. Coverage is uneven by design: the open record on, say, the United States or the United Kingdom is decades deep, while many states have intelligence services whose activities are reconstructed largely from journalism, judicial findings, declassified documents from partner services, and the work of academic researchers.
Each agency page sits under the relevant country and carries its own reference apparatus: founding date and statutory citation where applicable, jurisdiction, parent ministry or chain of command, headquarters, predecessor services, and links to official channels (press office, FOIA reading room, social media) where they exist. The body text gives a structured account of role, history, notable operations (each tagged confirmed, alleged, or disputed), and oversight arrangements, footnoted to primary sources and to the most defensible secondary record.
Use this index to navigate by state. Use the Agencies index to navigate by service when you know the acronym. Use the Dossiers when an operation, scandal, or theme spans several agencies or several states.