List of defunct intelligence agencies
Defunct intelligence agencies include the following: The list of this article is not exhaustive.
Agencies by country
Afghanistan
- Istikhbarat
- Da Afghanistan da Gato da Saatane Adara
- KhAD-e-Nezami
- Komite-ye Amniyat-e Melli
- Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati
- Wazarat-e Amaniat-e Dowlati
- National Directorate of Security
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
- Batallón de Inteligencia 601
- Central Nacional de Inteligencia
- Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado
- División de Informaciones
- Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Azerbaijan
Brazil
- Serviço Nacional de Informações
- Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna
- Subsecretaria de Inteligência
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China / Taiwan
- Embroidered Uniform Guard
- Eastern Depot
- Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
- National Committee of Investigations and Statistics
- Taiwan Garrison Command
Colombia
Confederate States of America
Czechoslovakia
- Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services
- Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky
- Státní Bezpečnost
Dutch East Indies
Ecuador
Egypt
Finland
- Ministry of Interior
- * Etsivä keskuspoliisi
- * Valtiollinen poliisi
- * Red Valpo
- Finnish Defence Forces
- * Intelligence Research Establishment – Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten
- Ministry of Defence
- * Military Intelligence Service – ''Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto''
France
- Secret du Roi
- Deuxième Bureau
- Renseignements Généraux
- Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action, existed under different names along its existence. BCRA is the most known.
- Direction Générale des Études et Recherches
- Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage
- Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire
- Co-ordination unit of the fight against terrorism
- Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur
- Sous-direction de l'information générale
- Service central du renseignement territorial
Federal Republic of Germany
*German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
- Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
- * Main Directorate for Reconnaissance
- Military Intelligence of the National People's Army
German Reich
- Abwehr
- Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost
- Geheime Staatspolizei
- Geheime Feldpolizei
- Sicherheitsdienst
- Reichssicherheitsdienst
- B-Dienst
- Naval Intelligence Service, also called Nachrichten-Abteilung
- Abteilung III b
- Prussian Secret Police
Haiti
Hong Kong
Hungary
Israel
Italy
- Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo
- Servizio Informazioni Militare
- Servizio Informazioni Segrete
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Japan
Libya
Malaysia
Manchukuo
Netherlands
- Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst
- Inlichtingendienst Buitenland
- Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service
- Netherlands Indies Government Information Service
Ottoman Empire
Panama
- Policia Secreta Nacional
- Guardia Silenciosa Panameñista
- 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
- Estado Mayor General ('Inteligencia')
- Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones
Philippines
- Philippine Constabulary – Office of Special Investigations
- Philippine Constabulary – National Constabulary Investigations Service
- National Intelligence and Security Authority
- Civil Intelligence and Security Agency
Poland
- Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego
- * Biuro Szyfrów
- * Estezet
- * Polish Agency of Trade Information
- Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
- Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
- Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych
- * Departament I MSW
- * Departament II MSW
- * Służba Bezpieczeństwa MSW
- Urząd Ochrony Państwa
- Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego
- Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna
- Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego LWP
- Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego
Portugal
Qatar
- General Intelligence Service
- Investigation and State Security Service
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau
Roman Empire
Romania
- Secția a-II-a
- Siguranța Statului
- Serviciul Special de Informații
- Serviciul de Informații
- Departamentul Securității Statului
Russia
Russian Empire (1721–1917)
- Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
- Okhrannoye otdeleniye
- Special Corps of Gendarmes
RSFSR (1917–1922)
Russian Federation (1991–)
Serbia
Sri Lanka
Singapore
- Criminal Intelligence Department
- Special Branch
- Singapore Special Branch
- Internal Security Department
Somalia
South Africa
Soviet Union
- Cheka
- Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye
- Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye
- Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del
- Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del
- Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti
- Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
Spain
- Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa
- Political-Social Brigade
- Servicio de Información Militar
Sweden
Syria
National Security Bureau- General Intelligence Directorate
- Political Security Directorate
- Military Intelligence Directorate
- Air Force Intelligence Directorate
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- MI1
- MI2
- MI3
- MI4
- MI7
- MI8
- MI9
- MI10
- MI11
- MI12
- MI14
- MI15
- MI16
- MI17
- MI19
- Naval Intelligence Division
- Special Operations Executive
United States
- Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
- Office of Strategic Services
- The Pond
- National Drug Intelligence Center
North Vietnam
- Central Research Agency
South Vietnam
- Central Intelligence Office
- Military Security Directorate
- Strategic Technical Directorate
- Research and Documentation Office
- Intelligence Directorate
Vietnam
- * Tổng cục An ninh
- * Tổng cục Tình báo Công an