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* SVR -- ''Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki'' (Foreign Intelligence Service) - [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia modern Russian]] intelligence service. Another contender for the title of "the least cool espionage agency", though it started to get a lot of badass press coverage lately because of "Russian invervention" scandals.

* SVR -- ''Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki'' (Foreign Intelligence Service) - [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia modern Russian]] intelligence service. Another contender for the title of "the least cool espionage agency".

* CGI -- Coast Guard Intelligence. Part of the Coast Guard responsible for organizing intelligence for their
* [=DIA=] -- Defense Intelligence Agency. American military intelligence and primary source of information for the pentagon. operations. Also has the Coast Guard Counterintelligence Service, responsible for preventing espionage and terrorism.

* ONSI -- Office of National Security Intelligence. The [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcemen DEA's]] intelligence division, providing information in leads to seizures and arrests, and provides information for the Department of Justiceabout drug trade.

* ONSI -- Office of National Security Intelligence. The DEA's intelligence division, providing information in leads to seizures and arrests, and provides information for the Department of Justiceabout drug trade.

* UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} -- U.S. National Security Agency. Signal intelligence - specializing in cryptography, code-breaking, and digital information analysis.

* [=DIA=] -- Defense Intelligence Agency. American military intelligence and primary source of information for the pentagon.

* INR -- Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Part of the Department of State responsible for organizing intelligence coming from diplomatic cables and helps to define the US diplomatic strategy.

* DGSE (''Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure'', "Directorate-General for External Security") and DST -- The French equivalent of the CIA and MI5 (but also for counterespionage inside the French territory), respectively. The latter become part of the DCRI in 2008. The former was once known as the ''Deuxième Bureau'' ("Second Office").* DS -- ''Държавна Сигурност'' (''Dărzhavna Sigurnost'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "State]] [[StateSec Security"]]), the Bulgarian version of the KGB from when the country was CommieLand, infamous for orchestrating the [[ParasolOfPain "umbrella murder"]] of exiled dissident Georgi Markov. Unlike its counterparts in other Eastern European countries after the HoleInFlag revolutions, its former agents were never banned from occupying positions in the high echelons of society. Currently succeeded by DANS (almost the same name, State ''Agency for National'' Security which, while less openly repressive, became infamous for almost getting a [[StrawmanNewsMedia corrupt large-scale media owner as its head]]).

* [=ABIN=] -- The Brazilian Intelligence agency. The agency is quite young (Founded in 1999) because they are the successors of the SecretPolice of the military regime, the ''Serviço Nacional de Informações'' (SNI) that existed from 1964 until 1990. The new name was created to distance themselves from the old image of an agency that focused on political repression and to emphasize the new focus on intelligence and data gathering.

* UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} -- Federal Bureau of Investigation. US Federal Government police and counterintelligence.

* ONI -- Office of Naval Intelligence. Intelligence division of the US Navy. Particularly strong technical analysis of foreign military equipment and units.

* {{CIA}} -- Central Intelligence Agency. American civilian intelligence.

* DGSE (''Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure'', "Directorate-General for External Security") and DST -- The French equivalent of the CIA and MI5 (but also for counterespionage inside the French territory), respectively. The latter become part of the DCRI in 2008. The former was once known as the ''Deuxième Bureau'' ("Second Office").
* [=DIA=] -- Defense Intelligence Agency. American military intelligence.
* DS -- ''Държавна Сигурност'' (''Dărzhavna Sigurnost'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "State]] [[StateSec Security"]]), the Bulgarian version of the KGB from when the country was CommieLand, infamous for orchestrating the [[ParasolOfPain "umbrella murder"]] of exiled dissident Georgi Markov. Unlike its counterparts in other Eastern European countries after the HoleInFlag revolutions, its former agents were never banned from occupying positions in the high echelons of society. Currently succeeded by DANS (almost the same name, State ''Agency for National'' Security which, while less openly repressive, became infamous for almost getting a [[StrawmanNewsMedia corrupt large-scale media owner as its head]]).

* UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} -- Federal Bureau of Investigation. US Federal Government police and counterintelligence.

* NRO -- National Reconnaissance Office. American agency responsible for designing, operating, and maintaining SpySatellites.
* UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} -- U.S. National Security Agency. Signal intelligence - specializing in cryptography, code-breaking, and digital information analysis.

* CSEC -- Communications Security Establishment of Canada. Canadian SIGINT agency.
* CSIS -- Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Its headquarters are located at 1941 Ogilvie Road.

* UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} -- Israeli counterpart of the CIA.

* UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} -- U.S. National Security Agency. Responsible for communications security, codebreaking, and cryptography in general.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] BigBrotherIsWatching or TheIndexIsWatchingYou, this is an index of {{real life}} espionage and internal security agencies:

* [[SecretIntelligenceService MI-6]] -- Officially, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). The external intelligence agency for the UnitedKingdom.

* MGB -- see NKVD, MoscowCentre.

* {{FBI}} -- Federal Bureau of Investigation. US Federal Government police and counterintelligence.

* UsefulNotes/TheStasi -- Common name for the ''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit'' (Ministry for State Security), the SecretPolice of EastGermany.

* SVR -- ''Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki'' (Foreign Intelligence Service) - [[TheNewRussia modern Russian]] intelligence service. Another contender for the title of "the least cool espionage agency".

* {{SOE}} -- Special Operations Executive: British liaison to LaResistance during World War II.

An index of {{real life}} espionage and internal security agencies:

* {{Emniyet}} -- Turkish counterpart to the FBI in World War II.

* UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre -- Otherwise known as the KGB, ''Komityet Gosudarstvyennoy Bezopasnosti'' (Committee for State Security).

* DGSE and DST -- The French equivalent of the CIA and MI5 (but also for counter-espionage inside the French territory), respectively. The latter become part of the DCRI in 2008. The former was once known as the Deuxieme Bureau.

* {{OSS}} -- American [[{{Precursors}} Precursor]] to the CIA during World War II.

* UsefulNotes/IndianPoliticalService -- Intelligence service of TheRaj in the days of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire, and still around in modern UsefulNotes/{{India}} as its internal intelligence apparatus under the name [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Intelligence Bureau]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Abwehr}} -- German Military intelligence during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. For the Nazi Party's intelligence see {{Gestapo}}.

* {{Gestapo}} -- UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's very own SecretPolice.

* SSIS -- State Security Investigations Service, usually just "State Security", the internal intelligence agency (read: secret police) of Mubarak-era [[ModernEgypt Egypt]]. Famous for having Stasi-level infiltration/mass surveillance in a country five times the size of East Germany. Officially dissolved after the Revolution of 2011, but not really.

* UsefulNotes/IndianPoliticalService -- Intelligence service of TheRaj in the days of TheBritishEmpire, and still around in modern UsefulNotes/{{India}} as its internal intelligence apparatus under the name [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Intelligence Bureau]].

* FSB -- ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti'' (Federal Security Service) - [[TheNewRussia modern Russian]] counter-intelligence, counter-terrorist and SecretPolice service.

* Cheka ([=VChK=]) -- see MoscowCentre. Its RedOctober era predecessor.