List of defunct intelligence agencies

This is a list of defunct intelligence agencies.

Afghanistan

 * Istikhbarat (-1978)
 * Da Afghanistan da Gato da Saatane Adara (AGSA) (1978-1979)
 * Komite-ye Amniyat-e Melli (KAM) (1979-1979)
 * Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KhAD) (1980–1987)
 * Wazarat-e Amaniat-e Dowlati (WAD) (1987–1992)
 * National Directorate of Security (NDS) (2002–2021)

Albania

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

Algeria

 * Direction des Services de Sécurité (1990–2016)

Argentina

 * Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion) (late 1970s–2000)
 * Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)
 * Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (CIDE) (State Information Coordination)
 * División de Informaciones (Information Division)
 * Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

 * Evidenzbureau (1850–1918)

Brazil

 * Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service) (1964–1990)
 * Subsecretaria de Inteligência (SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence) (1990–1995)

Bulgaria

 * Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

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 / 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

Colombia

 * Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) (Administrative Department of Security) (1960–2011)

Confederate States of America

 * Confederate Secret Service

Czechoslovakia

 * Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS)
 * Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR)
 * Státní Bezpečnost (StB)

Dutch East Indies

 * Politieke Inlichtingendienst (PID) (1916–1945)

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

 * Deuxième Bureau (1871–1940)
 * Renseignements Généraux (RG) (1937–2008)
 * Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) (1944–1982)
 * Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) (1944–2008)

Federal Republic of Germany

 * Gehlen Organization ("The Org", "Zipper") (1946–1956)
 * Office/Center for Intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces (ANBw/ZNBw)

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 Reconnaissance 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Ecuador

 * National Intelligence Secretariat (SENAIN)

Egypt

 * State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) (1913–2011)

Hong Kong

 * Special Branch (1930–1995)

Hungary

 * Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department)
 * 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)
 * Servizio Informazioni Segrete (SIS)

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)

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

Japan

 * Kempeitai (1881–1945)
 * Tokkeitai
 * Tokkō (1911–1945)

Libya

 * Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat

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)
 * Estezet (STZ)
 * Polish Agency of Trade Information (PAIH)
 * 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)

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
See also Soviet Union.

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

 * Special Branch

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)

Spain

 * Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre) (1977–2002)
 * Political-Social Brigade (BPS/BSI) (1941–1978)

Sweden

 * IB ("Informationsbyrån")

Turkey

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

Uganda

 * State Research Bureau

Ukraine

 * Kontrrazvedka

United Kingdom

 * See also: MI5 aka The Security Service and MI6 aka The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), that still do exist; MI13 did though never exist.


 * MI1
 * MI2
 * MI3
 * MI4
 * MI7
 * MI8
 * MI9
 * MI10
 * MI11
 * MI12
 * MI14
 * MI15
 * MI16
 * MI17
 * MI19
 * Naval Intelligence Division (NID)
 * Special Operations Executive (SOE)

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)