Security agency

There is debate about whether some security agencies should be characterized as secret police forces. The extent to which security agencies use domestic covert operations to exert political control varies by country and political system. Such operations can include surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of dissident groups, attempts to publicly discredit dissident figures, and even assassination or extrajudicial detention and execution. Security agencies are constrained in some countries by a mesh of judicial and legislative accountability, whereas in others they may answer only to a single leader or executive committee. ==Security agencies==

or SUPO in Punavuori, Helsinki headquarters in Kassisaba, Kesklinn, Tallinn • Afghanistan : General Directorate of Intelligence • Armenia: National Security Service • Australia: • Australian Security Intelligence Organisation • Australian Secret Intelligence Service • Bahrain: National Security Agency • Bangladesh: National Security Intelligence (NSI) • Belarus: State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus (KDB or KGB) • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina • Brazil Federal Police • Brunei: Internal Security Department (Brunei) • Canada: Canadian Security Intelligence Service, successor of RCMP Security Service • China: Ministry of State Security (China) • Croatia: Military Security and Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Vojna sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija or VSOA or VSA) and Security and Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija ili SOA) • East Germany (former): Stasi • Estonia: Estonian Internal Security Service (KAPO) • Ethiopia: • National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) • Koree Nageenyaa (in Oromia) • European Union: European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA, originally European Network and Information Security Agency) • Finland: Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) • France: functions divided between Police nationale, Gendarmerie nationale, and Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure • Germany: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany), Bundeskriminalamt • India: • Ministry of Home Affairs • Intelligence Bureau (India) • National Investigation Agency • Ministry of Finance • Enforcement Directorate • Directorate of Revenue Intelligence • Economic Intelligence Council • Directorate General of GST Intelligence • Indonesia: Indonesian State Intelligence Agency • Ireland: • Directorate of Military Intelligence (Ireland) • Special Detective Unit, formerly the Special Branch and before that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) • Israel: Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency (ISA)) and others: see Israeli Intelligence Community • Japan: Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) • Malaysia: Royal Malaysian Police Special Branch • Netherlands: General Intelligence and Security Service • New Zealand: New Zealand Security Intelligence Service • Nigeria: State Security Service (SSS) • Norway: Norwegian Police Security Service • Oman: Internal Security Service • Pakistan: • Inter-Services Intelligence - ISI • Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan) • Federal Investigation Agency • Poland: Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego • Portugal: • Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP) • former: PIDE, or Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado • Russia: • Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), successor of Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), successor of KGB • Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation • Main Intelligence Directorate (Russia) • Serbia: Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA), Military Security Agency (VBA) • Singapore: Internal Security Department (Singapore) • Slovenia: Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency • Somalia: National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) (Somali: Hay'ada Sirdoonka iyo Nabadsugida) • Soviet Union (former): • Cheka • State Political Directorate (GPU) • People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) which became Ministry for Internal Affairs (MVD) • People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB) which became Ministry for State Security (MGB) • SMERSH • KGB, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (Russian: Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (КГБ) • South Africa: State Security Agency (South Africa) • Spain (all the following agencies have security and security intelligence functions): • Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) • General Commissariat of Information (CGI) • General Commissariat of Judiciary Police (CGPJ) • Civil Guard Information Service (SIGC) • Sri Lanka: State Intelligence Service (Sri Lanka) (SIS) • Sweden: Swedish Security Service (Säkerhetspolisen, SÄPO) • Switzerland: Intelligence Service of the Federation (Nachrichtendienst des Bundes) • Turkey: The National Intelligence Organization (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, MIT) • Ukraine: Security Service of Ukraine • United Kingdom (all the following agencies have security and security intelligence functions): • MI5 (also known as the Security Service) • MI6 (also known as the Secret Intelligence Service) • Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) • Defence Intelligence (DI) • National Crime Agency (NCA) • United States (all the following agencies have security and security intelligence functions): • Central Security Service • Federal Bureau of Investigation • Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency • National Security Agency • Defense Intelligence Agency • Vietnam: Ministry of Public Security (Bộ Công an, BCA) ==See also==