Defunct intelligence agencies include the following: The list of this article is not exhaustive.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

• Istikhbarat (–1978)

• Da Afghanistan da Gato da Saatane Adara (AGSA) (1978–1979)

• KhAD-e-Nezami (Military Intelligence) (1978-1992)

• Komite-ye Amniyat-e Melli (KAM) (1979)

• Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KhAD) (1980–1987)

• Wazarat-e Amaniat-e Dowlati (WAD) (1986–1992)

• National Directorate of Security (NDS) (2002–2021)

Albania

• Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (Sigurimi) (Directorate of State Security) (1944–1991)

Algeria

• Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) (1962–2016)

Argentina

• Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion) (late 1970s–2000)

• Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center) (–2001)

• Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (CIDE) (State Information Coordination) (1946–1955)

• División de Informaciones (Information Division) (1946–1955)

• Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information) (1955–1956)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Evidenzbureau (1850–1918)

Azerbaijan

• Ministry of National Security (1991-2015)

Brazil

• Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service) (1964–1990)

• Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna (DOI-CODI) (Internal Operations Department-Centre for Internal Defence Operations) (1969–1984)

• Subsecretaria de Inteligência (SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence) (1990–1995)

Bulgaria

• Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS) (1964–1989)

Canada

• RCMP Security Service (1950–1984)

Chile

• Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Directorate of Intelligence) (1973–1977)

• Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)

China and Taiwan

• Embroidered Uniform Guard (1368–1645)

• Eastern Depot (1420–1644)

• Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (1927–1946)

• National Committee of Investigations and Statistics (1935–1949)

• Taiwan Garrison Command (1945–1992)

Colombia

• Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) (Administrative Department of Security) (1960–2011) (Succeeded by National Intelligence Directorate DNI)

Confederate States of America

• Confederate Secret Service (1861–1865)

Czechoslovakia

• Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS)

• Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR)

• Státní Bezpečnost (StB) (1945–1990)

Dutch East Indies

• Politieke Inlichtingendienst (PID) (1916–1945)

Ecuador

• National Intelligence Secretariat (SENAIN) (2009–2018)

Egypt

• State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) (1913–2011) (succeeded By National Security Agency - Egypt Since 2011)

Finland

Ministry of Interior

• Etsivä keskuspoliisi (EK, 1919–1938)

• Valtiollinen poliisi (Valpo I, 1939–1944)

• Red Valpo (Valpo II, 1944–1948)

Finnish Defence Forces

• Intelligence Research Establishment (VKoeL, 1960–2014) – Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten

Ministry of Defence

• Military Intelligence Service (PVTK, 2007–2014) – Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto

France

• Secret du Roi (King's Secret) (1746-1774)

• Deuxième Bureau (Second Bureau) (1871–1940)

• Renseignements Généraux (General Intelligence - RG) (1937–2008) (Merged mainly with DST into Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence)

• Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations) (BCRA) (1940-1943), existed under different names along its existence. BCRA is the most known.

• (General Directorate of Special Services) (DGSS) (1943-1944)

• Direction Générale des Études et Recherches (General Directorate for Studies and Research) (DGER) (1944-1945)

• Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service) (SDECE) (1945–1982)

• Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) (DST) (1944–2008)

• Co-ordination unit of the fight against terrorism (Unité de coordination de la lutte anti-terroriste) (UCLAT) (1984-2020)

• Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence) (DCRI) (2008-2014) (Predecessor of General Directorate for Internal Security)

• Sous-direction de l'information générale (Sub-directorate of general information) (SDIG) (2008-2014) (One of the successor of General Intelligence)

• Service central du renseignement territorial (Central Territorial Intelligence Service) (SCRT) (2014-2023) (The successor is ) (National Directorate of Territorial Intelligence)

Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

• Gehlen Organization ("The Org", "Zipper") (1946–1956)

• (ANBw/ZNBw) (1956-2007)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security) (1950–1990)

• Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (1955–1990)

• Military Intelligence of the National People's Army (Militärische Aufklärung der Nationalen Volksarmee) (1956–1990)

German Reich

• Abwehr (1920–1945)

• Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost (Department Foreign Armies East) (1938–1945)

• Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police) (1933–1945)

• Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) (Secret Field Police) (1939–1945)

• Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (Security Service) (1931–1945)

• Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) (Reich Security Service) (1933–1945)

• B-Dienst (Observation Service) (1918–1945)

• Naval Intelligence Service, also called Nachrichten-Abteilung (1899–1919)

• Abteilung III b (Department III b) (1889–1918)

• Prussian Secret Police (1851–1933)

Haiti

• Service d'Intelligence National (SIN) (National Intelligence Service) (1986–1991)

Hong Kong

• Special Branch (1930–1995)

Hungary

• Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department) (1948–1956)

• Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority) (1945–1956)

Israel

• ha-Lishka le-Kishrei Mada (Lekem or Lakam) (Bureau of Scientific Relations) (1957–1986)

Italy

• Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (1927–1945)

• Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) (1925–1949)

• Servizio Informazioni Segrete (SIS) (1931–1943)

Indonesia

• Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib) (1965–1988)

• Badan Koordinasi Stabilitas Nasional (Bakorstanas) (1988–2000)

Iran

• Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security) (1957–1979)

• Rokn-e-Dovvom (Second Bureau) (1926–1979)

Iraq

• Al-Amn al-‘Amm (Directorate of General Security) (1922–2003)

• Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization) (1983–2003)

• Al-Istikhabarat al-'Askariyya (Directorate of General Military Intelligence) (1932–2003)

• Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Iraqi Intelligence Service) (1973–2003)

Ireland

• Free State Army Intelligence Department ("Oriel House") (1921–1923)

• Criminal Investigation Department (CID) (1921–1923)

• Citizens' Defence Force (1922)

Japan

• Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO) (1986-2026)

• Kempeitai (1881–1945)

• Tokkeitai

• Tokkō (1911–1945)

Libya

• Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat (–2011)

Malaysia

• Malayan Security Service (1939–1948)

Manchukuo

• Hoankyoku (1937–1945)

Netherlands

• Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (Interior Security Service) (1947–2002)

• Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (1946–1994)

• Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service (NEFIS) (1942–1945)

• Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (NIGIS) (1942–1945)

Ottoman Empire

• Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa (1913–1918)

Panama

• Policia Secreta Nacional (PSN) (La Secreta) (1909–60s first government secret agency)

• Guardia Silenciosa Panameñista (GUSIPA) (1930–40s short-lived secret service)

• 1.Estado Mayor Personal/Sec."E" Asuntos de Seguridad Nacional of PFD General Command

• Sub Jefatura de Inspectoria General of PFD General State Major Chieftain

• Comando General de la Comision de Defensa y Seguridad (COGECODESE) (security, defense and intelligence PNG/PFD main entity)

• Estado Mayor General ('Inteligencia') (G-2) (1950–80s PNG/PDFs military intelligence)

• Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DENI) (1960–1989)

Philippines

• Philippine Constabulary – Office of Special Investigations (PC-OSI) (1901–1991)

• Philippine Constabulary – National Constabulary Investigations Service (PC-NCIS) (1901–1936)

• National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA) (1972–1987)

• Civil Intelligence and Security Agency (CISA) (1972–1987)

Poland

Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1918–1939)

• Biuro Szyfrów (Cypher Bureau) (1919–1945)

• Estezet (STZ) (1941–1945)

• Polish Agency of Trade Information (PAIH) (1932–1939)

• Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1945–1954)

• Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1954–1956)

Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (MSW) (1954–1990)

• Departament I MSW

• Departament II MSW

• Służba Bezpieczeństwa MSW (SB-MSW) (1956–1990)

• Urząd Ochrony Państwa (UOP) (Office for State Protection) (1990–2001)

• Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego (1944–1957)

• Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna (WSW) (1957–1990)

• Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego LWP (1945–1951)

• Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1951–1990)

Portugal

• PIDE (1933–1969)

Qatar

• General Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat)

• Investigation and State Security Service (mubahith)

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

• Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

• Agentes in rebus (4th–7th century)

• Areani

• Bureau of Barbarians

• Frumentarii

• Praetorian Guard (27 BC–312 AD)

Romania

• Secția a-II-a (Section II) (1859–1908)

• Siguranța Statului (Siguranța) (State Security) (1908–1940)

• Serviciul Special de Informații (Special Intelligence Service) (1940–1944)

• Serviciul de Informații (Intelligence Service) (1944–1948)

• Departamentul Securității Statului (Securitate) (Department of State Security) (1948–1991)

Russia

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

• Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (1826–1880)

• Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or slang Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866–1917)

• Special Corps of Gendarmes (1836–1917)

RSFSR (1917–1922)

• Cheka (1917–1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)

Russian Federation (1991–)

• Federal Counterintelligence Service (1993–1995)

Serbia

• Service for Research and Documentation (SID) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1949–2007)

Sri Lanka

• Special Branch (1966–1970)

Singapore

• Criminal Intelligence Department (1918–1933)

• Special Branch (1933–1939)

• Singapore Special Branch (1948–1966)

• Internal Security Department (1966–1970)

Somalia

• National Security Service (NSS) (1970–1990)

South Africa

• Bureau of State Security (BOSS) (1969–1980)

Soviet Union

• Cheka (1917–1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)

• Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (GPU) (1922–1923) (State Political Directorate)

• Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU) (1923–1934) (Joint State Political Directorate)

• Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del (NKVD) (1934–1946) (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)

• Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD) (1946–1954) (Ministry for Internal Affairs)

• Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (MGB) (1943–1953) (Ministry for State Security)

• Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) (1954–1991) (Committee for State Security)

• (1991)

Spain

• Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre) (1977–2002)

• Political-Social Brigade (BPS/BSI) (1941–1978)

• Servicio de Información Militar (SIM/MIS) (1937-1939)

Sweden

• IB ("Informationsbyrån") (1973)

Syria

National Security Bureau (1966-2024)

• General Intelligence Directorate (1971-2024)

• Political Security Directorate (1971-2024)

• Military Intelligence Directorate (1969-2024)

• Air Force Intelligence Directorate (1970-2024)

Turkey

• Millî Emniyet Hizmeti Riyâseti (M.E.H./MAH, between 1926 and 1965)

Uganda

• State Research Bureau

Ukraine

• Kontrrazvedka (1919–1921)

United Kingdom

• MI1 (1915–1919)

• MI2 (–1941)

• MI3 (1914–1945)

• MI4 (1915–1991)

• MI7 (1915–1940)

• MI8 (1914–1945)

• MI9 (1939–1945)

• MI10 (1940–1961)

• MI11 (–1945)

• MI12

• MI14 (–1943)

• MI15 (1942–)

• MI16 (1945–)

• MI17

• MI19 (1940–)

• Naval Intelligence Division (NID) (1912–1964)

• Special Operations Executive (SOE) (1940–1946)

United States

• Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (1948–2014)

• Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (1942–1945)

• The Pond (1942–1955)

• National Drug Intelligence Center (1993–2012)

North Vietnam

• Central Research Agency

South Vietnam

• Central Intelligence Office (1961–1975)

• Military Security Directorate

• Strategic Technical Directorate

• Research and Documentation Office

• Intelligence Directorate

Vietnam

• Tổng cục An ninh (Tổng cục I) (General Department of Security or First General Department)

• Tổng cục Tình báo Công an (Tổng cục V, or TC V) (General Department of Public Security Intelligence or Fifth General Department)

Yugoslavia

• UDBA (1946–1991)

• KOS (Kontraobaveštajna služba), Counterintelligence Service (General staff) (1946–1992)

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies

• Secret service

• Secret police

• List of intelligence agencies

References