History Main / BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex

* 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").

* RAW -- The Research and Analysis Wing is present-day India's external intelligence agency.

* [[{{MI5}} MI-5]] -- Officially, the Security Service. Deals with internal security and counter-intelligence in the UK.

* UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} -- Israeli intelligence agency.

* MIT - Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (National Intelligence Organisation) - The present-day Turkish counterpart of the NSA or CIA. During more turbulent times, it also dabbled in being the SecretPolice and occasionally used paramilitaries of various affiliations to get things done.

* UsefulNotes/{{DS}} -- ''Държавна Сигурност'' (''Dărzhavna Sigurnost'', "State 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]]).

[[AC:United States Intelligence Community]]: While most nations have 1 up to 3 agencies (Usually civilian intelligence, signals intelligence and counterintelligence), the United States have [[UptoEleven 16 agencies]], they are all organized under the Intelligence Community, which attempts to coordinate them and prevent InterserviceRivalry

* 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]]).

* OICI -- Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Part of the Department of Energy. Specialized in nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, nuclear energy, radioactive waste and energy security. Monitors foreign nuclear stockpiles. [[NonindicativeName Does not perform actual counterintelligence]].

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

* {{GRU}} -- The Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye(Main Intelligence Directorate) is the other Soviet/Russian Military Intelligence which outlasted the KGB.

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

* BOSS -- The Bureau of State Security, the name of the South African Apartheid Government's intelligence service from 1966 to 1970.

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

* 25th Air Force -- Also known as Air Force Intelligence, the numbered air force resposible for the intelligence for the USAF. Responsible for ISTAR (Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance)

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

* NGA -- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. American agency providing maps and targeting documents (GEOINT) for strikes against enemy targets. It also creates strategic briefing documents, atlases, and battle damage assessments using imagery intelligence (IMINT). Possible the winner of "least cool espionage agency".
* UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} -- U.S. National Security Agency. Signal intelligence - specializing in cryptography, code-breaking, and digital information analysis.
* OICI -- Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Part of the department of Energy. Specialized in nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, nuclear energy, radioactive waste and energy security. Monitors foreign nuclear stockpiles. [[NonindicativeName Does not perform actual counterintelligence]]
* ONI -- Office of Naval Intelligence. Intelligence division of the US Navy and the oldest in the United States, founded in 1882. Particularly strong technical analysis of foreign military equipment and units.

* ONSI -- Office of National Security Intelligence. The [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement DEA's]] intelligence division, providing information in leads to seizures and arrests, and provides information for the Department of Justiceabout drug trade.
* TGA -- Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Part of the department of treasury resposible for tracking the money used in illicit activities by terrorists (groups and state-sponsored), money launderers, drug cartels, and other national security threats.

* [=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 SNI (''Serviço Nacional de Informações'', National Information Service) 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.