IntelligenceAgenciesOfIndiaAndTheWorldIntelligence agencies of
India and the world by Dr. Gaurav Garg National security
Protection against threats such as terrorism, espionage (spy) and
sabotage (destroying the plans of enemies), the activities of
agents of foreign powers, and from actions intended to overthrow or
undermine parliamentary democracy by political, industrial, or
violent means.
Eg: IB and RAW are the intelligence agencies of India. IB looks
after internal security and RAW handles foreign intelligence.
United States of America Intelligence Community
Composed of 18 organizations (“IC elements”) Two independent
agencies – ODNI and CIA Nine Department of Defense – DIA, NSA, NGA,
NRO, US Air Force Intelligence, U.S.
Navy Intelligence, U.S. Army Intelligence, and U.S. Marine Corps
Intelligence, Space Force
Seven elements of other departments and agencies
Independent Agencies OFFICE of the DIRECTOR of NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE (ODNI)
Director of National Intelligence serves as the head of the U.S.
Intelligence Community Principal advisor to the President, the
National Security Council, and t he Homeland
Security Council for intelligence matters Set up under Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 It works to prevent
terrorism.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Intelligence on foreign countries
and global issues Separated into seven basic components:
Directorate of Analysis, Directorate of
Operations, Directorate of Science and Technology, Directorate of
Support, Directorate of Digital Innovation, Mission Centers, and
Offices of the Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation Intelligence and law enforcement
agency Mandate - Internal security, counter-terrorism,
counter-intelligence Under Department of Justice. There is an
overlapping of functions among various departments of
intelligence.
Defense Intelligence Agency
Under Department of Defense
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United Kingdom Intelligence Joint Intelligence Committee
Assesses intelligence gathered for policy-making Oversight of SIS,
SS, GCHQ, and DI
Secret Intelligence Service
Also known a s MI6 Three core aims: Counter-Terrorism, Disrupting
Hostile State
Activity, and Promoting and defending the UK’s cyber realm Founded
in 1909 HQ – Vauxhall Cross, London
Secret Service
Also known as MI5 Protect British parliamentary democracy and
economic interests, and counter-terrorism and espionage knew as
Box,
or Box 500, after its official wartime address of PO Box 500
Government Communications Headquarters Providing signals
intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance Two main
components: Composite Signals Organisation (CSO) - gathering
information, and National Cyber
Security Centre (NCSC) - securing own communications
Defense Intelligence (DI) Military Intelligence Under Ministry of
Defence
Israel Mossad
and counter-terrorism. Operation " Wrath of God” - e liminate Black
September
individuals involved in the 1972 Munich massacre (Israel team was
killed in Olympics game held in Munich)
Eli Cohen – known for espionage in Syria, helped in occupying Golan
Heights, West Bank, and Jerusalem
Shin Bet or Shabak "The unseen shield” Internal Intelligence
Service Formed in 1949
Aman Military intelligence, i nformation security, and
counterintelligence
France General Directorate for External Security (DGSE)
Mandate - seek secret information abroad, of interest to defense
and national security , crisis intelligence, counter-terrorism,
counter-proliferation
General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) Succeeds the
Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) Attached
directly to the Minister of the Interior Counter-espionage,
economic counter-interference, and counter-proliferation,
counter-terrorism and violent extremism counter cybercrime
Others: Military Intelligence Directorate (DRM) Defense
Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRSD) National Directorate
of Intelligence and Customs Investigations
(DNRED) Intelligence Processing and Action Service Against
Clandestine
Financial Circuits (TRACFIN)
Primary national intelligence service Intelligence on threats to
Canada's national security Conducts operations, covert and
overt,
within Canada and abroad HQ - Ottawa, Ontario, 1984 Under Ministry
of public safety
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Australia National Intelligence Community
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) Under Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Established on May 13, 1952 Collector of foreign
intelligence
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) National
Security matters Counterterrorism, Counterespionage and foreign
interference, Border Security, Protective security Under Ministry
for Home Affairs
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Germany Federal Intelligence Service (BND)
Bundesnachrichtendienst Foreign intelligence service Under German
Chancellery HQ – Berlin
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz Domestic intelligence agency
Threats to the German state in the form of religious extremism,
political
extremism and organized crime , counterintelligence Under the
Federal Ministry of the Interior
Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD ) Military
Intelligence
Japan Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office
“Naicho” Under the Cabinet Secretariat International
Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Collection
Public Security Intelligence Agency “Kouanchousa-chou ” National
intelligence agency Administered by the Ministry of Justice
Internal security and espionage against threats Formed in
1952
Russia
Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR)
External intelligence agency Succeeded the First Chief Directorate
(PGU) of the KGB in December 1991 Reports to President
Federal Security Service (FSB) Principal security agency Main
successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB Internal, include
counter-intelligence, internal and border security,
counter-terrorism, and
surveillance Reports to President
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Federal Protective Service (FSO) Also known as Federal Guard
Service Protection of several high-ranking state officials
Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation (GRU) The foreign military intelligence agency
Subordinate to the Russian military command, reporting to the
Minister of Defence and the
Chief of the General Staff.
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Dissolved in November
1991)
Bangladesh National Security Intelligence
Special Branch Perform verification role, give protection to the
VIPs intelligence gathering, immigration
controls Reports to Prime Minister
Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Headed by a Director-General, who is traditionally a serving
Lieutenant- General (Three-star general) in the Pakistan Army,
appointed by the Prime Minister
Three wings: Internal Wing – domestic intelligence,
counter-intelligence, counter-espionage, and counter-terrorism
External Wing – external intelligence, counter-intelligence, and
espionage Foreign Relations Wing – diplomatic intelligence and
foreign relations intelligence
Formed - January 1, 1948 HQ - Aabpara, Islamabad
Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan) Civilian intelligence agency
Director-General appointed from civil bureaucracy and police Formed
- August 17, 1947, HQ - Islamabad
Directorate-General for Military Intelligence (DGMI)
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The major organization responsible for coup d'état against the
government HQ - Army GHQ, Rawalpindi
China Ministry of State Security (MSS)
Also known as ’Guoanbu’ Counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence,
and political security preceded by the Central Investigation
Department (CID), which was China's
primary intelligence organization from 1955 to 1983 Divided into 17
bureaus
Ministry of Public Security (MPS)
Principal police and security authority Oversight and law
enforcement, internal security dynamics
‘Thousand Grains of Sand’ It is a Chinese strategy stating that
accumulating intelligence from various sources till a clear image
appears.
Joint Staff Department Intelligence Bureau External intelligence
agency of People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Strategic Support Force Cyber warfare, foreign political
interference, PsyOps
Indian intelligence agencies Criminal Investigation Department
(CID)
It is a branch of the State Police Services of India responsible
for the investigation of crime
The first CID was created by the British Government in 1902, based
on the recommendations of the Police Commission.
Rai Bahadur Pandit Shambhu Nath -"Father of Indian CID" The
difference between CID and CBI is only that CBI reports to the
Central
government (Central Home Minister) whereas CID reports to the State
government (State Home Minister).
Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB)
It was established in July 1985 responsible for the Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance. Along with the Income Tax Department,
it is India's chief agency responsible for economic intelligence,
monitoring
and fighting economic offenses such as smuggling, money laundering,
tax evasion, and fraud.
The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau is headed by a
Director-General, who also carries the designation of Special
Secretary to the Government of India. The CEIB is the chief
constituent of the Economic Intelligence Council and is responsible
to the Finance Minister of India.
Enforcement Directorate
ED is a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency
responsible for enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime
in India.
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It is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance,
Government Of India. It is composed of officers from the Indian
Revenue Service, Indian Corporate Law Service, Indian Police
Service, and the Indian Administrative Service as well as promoted
officers from its cadre
The prime objective of the Enforcement Directorate is the
enforcement of two key Acts namely, the Foreign Exchange Management
Act 1999 (FEMA) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002
(PMLA)
Economic Intelligence Council
The Economic Intelligence Council is the apex forum overseeing
government agencies responsible for economic intelligence and
combating economic offenses in India.
The Council is also the apex of 18 regional economic intelligence
committees and is part of the Union Ministry of Finance. It was
formed in 1990.
The chairperson of the Economic Intelligence Council is the Finance
Minister of India. Its chief members include the Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI), and the Directors of the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), and
the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
The Deputy Director-General of the Central Economic Intelligence
Bureau serves as the Council's secretary.
The Defence Intelligence Agency (D.I.A)
It is an organization responsible for providing and coordinating
military intelligence for the Indian armed forces. It was created
in March 2002 and is administered within the Ministry of Defence.
It was formally recommended by the Cabinet Group of Ministers,
headed by the then Deputy Prime Minister of
India Lal Krishna Advani. The Group of Ministers investigated
intelligence lapses that occurred during the Kargil War and
recommended comprehensive reform of Indian intelligence agencies.
The Defence Intelligence Agency was created and became operational
in March 2002.
The Director-General of the Defence Intelligence Agency is the head
of the entire organization. The director-general is the principal
advisor on intelligence to the Minister of Defence and the Chief of
Defence Staff. The post of the director general will be held in
rotation between the three armed services.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
DRI is an Indian intelligence agency. It is India's apex
anti-smuggling intelligence, investigations, and operations agenc
y. The Directorate is run by officers from the Central Board of
Indirect Taxes and
Customs (CBIC) who are posted in its various Zonal Units as well as
in Indian embassies abroad as part of the Customs Overseas
Intelligence Network.
It is headed by a Director-General of the rank of Special Secretary
to the Government of India. The Agency works to secure India's
national and economic security by preventing the outright smuggling
of contraband such as firearms, gold, narcotics, Fake Indian
Currency notes, antiques, wildlife, and environmental products.
Moreover, it also works to prevent the proliferation of black
money, trade-based money laundering, and commercial frauds.
Intelligence Bureau
Motto - (English: Always Alert) IB is India's domestic
intelligence, internal security, and counter-intelligence agency.
In 1885, Major General Charles MacGregor was appointed
Quartermaster General for the British Indian Army at
Simla and thereby became responsible for its intelligence
activities. The main concern of the time was to monitor Russian
troop deployments in Afghanistan to avoid an invasion of
British India from the northwest. In 1909, the Indian Political
Intelligence Office was established in England in response to the
development of
Indian revolutionary activities. It came to be called Indian
Political Intelligence (IPI) in 1921 , constituting a surveillance
and monitoring agency run jointly by the India Office and the
Government of India and maintaining close contact with Scotland
Yard and MI5. After Indian independence in 1947, IPI was renamed
the Intelligence Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Narcotics Control Bureau
Formed in 1986, It is Indian federal law enforcement and
intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government
of India. The agency is tasked with combating drug trafficking and
the use of illegal substances under the provisions of the Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW)
Formed in 1968. It is the foreign intelligence agency of India. The
agency's primary function is gathering f oreign intelligence,
counter-terrorism,
counter-proliferation, advising Indian policymakers, and advancing
India's foreign strategic interests.
It is also involved in the security of India's nuclear program.
Motto - First Director - Rameshwar Nath Kao Headquartered in New
Delhi
National Investigation Agency
NIA is India's counter-terrorism task force. The agency is
empowered to deal with terror-related crimes across states without
special permission from the states. The Agency came into existence
with the enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act 2008 by
the
Parliament o f India on 31 December 2008 , which was passed after
the deadly 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai. Headquartered in New
Delhi
National Technical Research Organisation
Formed in 2004, NTRO is a technical intelligence agency under the
National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office,
India.
It was set up in 2004. It also includes the National Institute of
Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), which is the first
of
its kind in Asia. NTRO has the same “norms of conduct” as the
Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing
(R&AW). The organization does hi-tech surveillance jobs,
including satellite monitoring, terrestrial monitoring,
internet
monitoring, considered vital for the national security
apparatus
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