World intelligence services. Ten of the best secret agencies in the world. Ministry of State Security of China

No, not aliens, but quite real people - intelligence officers.

Below is a list of ten of the best intelligence agencies in the world.

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German Federal Intelligence Service - Germany’s foreign intelligence service, established in 1955 on the basis of the so-called “General Gehlen’s organization”. By the number of employees it is the largest federal institution in Germany. BND has about 7 thousand employees, of which 2 thousand are engaged in intelligence gathering abroad. The main tasks of the department are the collection and analysis of intelligence. information, as well as the identification and opposition to threats of sovereignty and interests of the Federal Republic of Germany. BND devotes a considerable part of its resources to the fight against terrorism.

9 Directorate General of External Security, DGSE (France)

The Directorate General of External Security is the main foreign intelligence agency of France, established on April 2, 1982. Its task is to ensure intelligence and national security, in particular by carrying out paramilitary and counterintelligence operations abroad. The main office is located in the 20th district of Paris. The staff for 2011 totals 4747 people. As with most other intelligence, details of its activities and organization are not made public.

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The eighth place in the list of the best special services in the world is the PRC Ministry of State Security - a special service whose main functions are counterintelligence, external and internal intelligence, and political security of the People’s Republic of China. It was created on June 6, 1983. The headquarters is in Beijing.

7 Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ASIS

The Australian Secret Intelligence Service, headquartered in Canberra, is responsible for intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, and liaison with intelligence agencies in other countries. It was created on May 13, 1952. However, the Australian government officially confirmed its existence only in 1977. Interestingly, the training of the first ASIS employees was carried out by employees of the British MI-6.

6 Research and Analysis Division, RAW (India)

The Department of Research and Analysis - the Foreign Intelligence Service of India is considered one of the best special services in the world. It was created in September 1968. Its main functions are foreign intelligence, the fight against terrorism, covert operations, obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and ensuring the security of the Indian nuclear program.

5 Office of Intelligence and Special Tasks, Mossad (Israel)

Mossad is the national intelligence service of Israel, an analogue of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It is considered one of the most effective and professional intelligence services in the world. Its main tasks are to collect and analyze intelligence. information, as well as secret covert operations outside the country. The organization was established in March 1951. The main office is located in Tel Aviv on King Shaul Boulevard. Currently, the estimated number of Mossad employees is 1,200. The most famous successful operations of this department are: the search and kidnapping of a Nazi included in the ranking of the most cruel rulers in the history of Adolf Eichmann, the abduction of nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, the elimination of the causes of the Munich massacre at the Olympic Games in 1972 and many others.

4 Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, FSB

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the national security service of Russia, the successor to the KGB. Its main functions are counterintelligence, intelligence and border activities, the fight against terrorism, corruption and especially dangerous forms of crime, as well as ensuring information security. It was established on April 3, 1995. The headquarters is located in the main building of the former KGB in Lubyanka, Moscow.

3 UK Secret Intelligence Service MI-6

The UK Secret Intelligence Service is a UK foreign intelligence service headquartered in London. It was formed in 1909. However, its existence was officially recognized only in 1994. The main tasks of MI-6 are the fight against espionage (counterintelligence), as well as the collection, processing and analysis of political, economic, technical and scientific information threatening the interests of Great Britain.

2 Central Intelligence Agency, CIA (USA)

The Central Intelligence Agency is an American intelligence agency whose main functions are covert operations, as well as the collection and analysis of information about foreign governments, organizations, companies and individuals. The special service was created in 1947. Headquartered in Langley, Virginia, 13 km from Washington.

1 Pakistan Inter-Agency Intelligence, ISI

The best intelligence service in the world is the Pakistan Inter-Agency Intelligence, established in 1948. Known as the most influential, powerful and well-equipped intelligence agency in the Islamic world. Its headquarters consists of several buildings and is located in Islamabad. According to some experts, ISI is the largest intelligence agency in the world in terms of the number of employees. Although their total number has never been announced, it is estimated at approximately 10,000.

Previously reported, US intelligence agencies

The country has a professional team to combat the mafia. All the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times related to corruption and fraud were conducted by a group of FSB general Sergey Korolev. In early July, Sergey Korolev received the FSB Economic Security Service (SEB) under his leadership.

"In the fight against the Russian Cosa Nostra"

Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the FSB’s Office of Internal Security (CSS), and in early July received the FSB’s Economic Security Service (SEB), said
RBC.

In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the third department of the Economic Security Service of the Federal Security Service, which was in charge of law enforcement. In those days, they looked at it almost as if they were retiring, Fontanka wrote the other day.

A few years later, news came to Petersburg - Korolev became an adviser to the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, while he oversaw the General Directorate of the General Staff, which is often called the GRU.

Soon, unexpectedly for all, Korolev became the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia. Among the police, the Chekists are called watchmen. It turns out he guarded the watchmen.

Under the Queen, the Sixth Service became one of the most significant units in the CSS. According to the interlocutor of RBC, close to the CSS, it was created in 2008, it includes only about 35 people. The head of the service is Ivan Tkachev, writes RBC.

Of course, before the detention of governors and other high-ranking officials, the head of the service agrees with the FSB director Bortnikov. And with such questions it is already necessary to approach the president. The resolution everywhere should be the same: “To work.” Signature, date. Which, in fact, means in Lefortovo, Fontanka notes.

The Economic Security Service is one of the key units in the FSB, explains retired Major General FSB, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Mikhailov. According to him, in the USSR, in conditions of confrontation with the West, the main role was played by employees who were directly involved in counterintelligence, but in recent years the importance of SEB has noticeably increased.

Officially, the structure of the SEB FSB is not disclosed. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, the Economic Security Service includes seven departments: counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system (Department “K”), industry, transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies, the Ministry of Justice, and anti-smuggling and drug trafficking, organizational and analytical management and administrative service.

From 2004 to 2008, SEB was headed by Alexander Bortnikov, who immediately transferred from this post to the post of director of the FSB. Yakovlev became Bortnikov’s successor in the SEB leadership. On July 8, Vladimir Putin appointed the new head of one of the key units of the FSB - the Economic Security Service. They became Sergey Korolev.

The most high-profile criminal cases of the Sixth Service

May 8, 2015. Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov was detained, who headed until February 2014 the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Recall that he was arrested on charges of organizing a criminal community, provoking a bribe and exceeding his official authority. His deputy Boris Kolesnikov, who soon committed suicide, was also arrested.

September 2015 . The head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaiser, has been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing a criminal community. In the Gaiser case, 19 people are going through, including the ex-State Duma deputy from Komi Evgeny Samoilov.

March 4, 2016 . On Sakhalin, the governor Alexander Khoroshavin was detained, he is charged with receiving a bribe in the amount of $ 6 million.

March 14, 2016. In Rostov, Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was detained. The total amount of damage attributed to him and other persons involved is more than 100 million rubles. In addition to Pirumov, the director of the BaltStroy St. Petersburg company Dmitry Sergeyev and other responsible persons were arrested in the so-called “case of restorers”.

End of March 2016 . Arrested "St. Petersburg businessman number 1" billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko. He is charged with smuggling. According to the investigation, elite alcohol was purchased at European auctions, which came to Russia under the guise of building sealant.

As noted by RBC, the Mikhalchenko case is not the only case of smuggling that is involved in the CSS. At the end of 2015, the management became interested in the business of ULS Global. Among the defendants in the investigation was the head of the 7th Department of Management “K” (it is engaged in counterintelligence in the financial sector) of the FSB Economic Security Service Vadim Uvarov.

Communication with Mikhalchenko affected the career of one of the country's highest-ranking security officials - FSO director Yevgeny Murov.

Murov worked for several years with business partner Nikolai Mikhalchenko Nikolai Negodov in the regional department of the FSB. Murov, Mikhalchenko, Rogues lived in the same village on the shores of Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region.

In late May, President Murov was dismissed by decision of the President. Spokesman for the head of state Dmitry Peskov explained the dismissal of Murov by his advanced age, recalls RBC.

June 24, 2016 . Upon receipt of 400 thousand euros, in a Moscow restaurant, the Governor of the Kirov Region, the former chairman of the Union of Right Forces Nikita Belykh, was detained.

July 13, 2016 . The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.

On the night of July 18-19 . Denis Nikandrov, deputy chief of the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow in Moscow, Mikhail Maksimenko, deputy chief of the interagency cooperation and internal security department and his deputy, Alexander Lamonov, chief of his own security department, were detained.

July 26, 2016. Investigators discovered about 10 million rubles and hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros during a search in the house of the head of the FCS of the Russian Federation, Andrei Belyaninov. Searches were also carried out in the offices of Deputy Belyaninov Andrei Strukov and Ruslan Davydov. During the searches, items and documents that were relevant to the investigation of the criminal case on alcohol smuggling were seized.

As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.

We note, after the "Fontanka", that Khoroshavin, Gaiser, Belykh is the governor's power. Sugrobov is a police officer. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko is capitalist. Citizen Shakro - Mafia. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the FCS.

FSB permutations

In June, Viktor Voronin, the head of Vadim Uvarova, lost his post as the head of the K department (part of the SEB structure).

The CSS had information that Voronin was associated with Mikhalchenko, told RBC two interlocutors close to the management of the CSS. Voronin's resignation occurred as a result of an internal audit conducted by the CSS in the SEB.

Soon after the first audit, the Department of Homeland Security began a re-audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB Yuri Yakovlev resigned.

A few weeks before Yakovlev’s resignation, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed July 8 head of the SEB.

Now the FSB continues to reshuffle, but already at the level of middle-level operatives of the Economic Security Service. According to one of the interlocutors of RBC in the FSB, close to the leadership of the special services, the scale of dismissals is still difficult to assess, but it is already known that about ten people will lose their posts, about half of which will be additionally checked in connection with possible violations of the law.

Another RBC interlocutor in the special service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another source of RBC, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was dismissed on July 8 - the day when a decree was signed on the appointment of a new head of the SEB.

Agents of such intelligence and counterintelligence are afraid all over the world, their names are kept secret, their faces are hidden from the eyes of ordinary people. Despite the fact that information about them is marked “Secret”, something nevertheless slips into the press. We offer you a dozen intelligence services that have remained the most active for many years.

1 ISI

The first on the list is ISI - Pakistani Intelligence, in order to exchange military information between the commanders of the armed forces of Pakistan. It was created in 1948, and currently has around ten thousand of its agents around the world.

2 CIA

CIA - American intelligence known throughout the world. She conducted more than six international operations, the most famous of which is the Cyclops operation, which takes place during the war in Afghanistan. The forces of this intelligence were given not only to the gathering of intelligence agents abroad, covert operations and anti-terror, but also to the advice of politicians.

3 MI6

MI6 is a British brainchild often compared to the American CIA. Intelligence can boast a high level of efficiency in fulfilling tasks, and a well-thought-out structure of the functioning of domestic policy. The most surprising fact is that this structure is gaining its agents through the Internet.

FSB - Russian intelligence. It was established in 1995, and from that moment the staff has increased to 350 thousand people. Border protection, intelligence, counter-terrorism and counterintelligence are all under the responsibility of the FSB.

5 DGSE

DGSE is a French intelligence service, formed back in 1982. Its main tasks are national security and intelligence gathering. The special service is part of the defense structure of the Ministry of Defense of France. The last successful operation of this intelligence was carried out in May 2011, when its agents were sent to support the Libyan rebels.

6 BND

BND is a German intelligence agency that was established on April 1, 1956. Its staff has more than 6 thousand employees. Her agents conducted many successful operations, especially the banking operation in Liechtenstein.

MOSSAD - Israeli famous counterintelligence, established in 1949. Its leader is directly subordinate to the president of the country. The last, most scandalous operation in recent times, was the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mambhuh.

8 RAW

RAW is an Indian intelligence agency whose creation was recorded on September 21, 1968. Main tasks: covert operations, information gathering and anti-terror. At the end of 2009, RAW employees in Nepal made several successful operations and most of the suspects were brought to justice.

9 ASIS

ASIS is an Australian intelligence agency established in 1952. It is responsible for collecting intelligence and protecting Australia's economic interests. The intelligence service participated in Papua New Guinea, where it helped to suppress the independence movement in several cities.

10 CSIS

CSIS is a Canadian military intelligence service created in the image of MI6 and the CIA. It was created in 1984. CSIS works closely with US intelligence and assists in many operations.

There are quite a few people who think that someone is tapping their phones and re-reading secret emails. And while not always a psychiatrist will be able to help. Indeed, there are secret organizations whose purpose is reconnaissance and obtaining the necessary data. And any of us can fall under the surveillance cap, because even relatives abroad may become an occasion to suspect relations with foreign organizations.

Today, the special services have practically unlimited tools and opportunities to know everything and about everyone. Thanks to intelligence, terrorist attacks are prevented and revolutions are organized, information changes its owner, and political rivals are destroyed. Any powerful and modern state is simply obliged to have advanced intelligence services. The most influential intelligence in the world will be discussed.

PRSI (India). The name of this organization is translated as the Intelligence Community of India. It is a powerful tool serving national interests. The RSI includes all departments of external and internal intelligence. I must say that the mysterious Indian organization has long been closely monitored by Western intelligence agencies. In addition, the RSI Research and Analysis Department had a strong relationship with the special services of Israel and the USSR. The main direction of the RSI's work is the collection of various information and work undercover, but in other states, intelligence also worked on other goals. According to some reports, until 1977, Soviet society was significantly influenced by Soviet intelligence, which generously financed the ruling circles in this country. However, the KGB failed to achieve its goal, the influence of the Communists on the leadership of India gradually came to naught. But many experts still believe that the RSI has long worked under the close supervision of an older Soviet brother.

PASRA (Australia). The main task of the Australian secret intelligence agency was to collect information and its subsequent analysis in the Western Pacific region. This intelligence was to identify unreliable citizens prone to sabotage, as well as to fight terrorism. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the ACRA structure is in many respects similar to that adopted in the British intelligence MI6. It is also interesting that Australian intelligence officers have rather limited powers. In general, the general public knows little about ASRA. This may indicate that intelligence works either very well or very poorly. It should also take into account the remoteness of the Australian mainland from Europe and America, which prevents the dissemination of information. At one time, the ACRA was reproached for observing too closely the personal lives of its citizens. You can recall one funny case when, during a training special operation to free one hotel in Melbourne from imaginary terrorists, representatives of the special services were very interested in their game. As a result, the institution suffered decent damage, and physical force was also used against hotel employees.

PMTCT (Pakistan). Few people know that one of the most powerful intelligence in the world is located in South Asia, in Pakistan. But you should not be surprised at this. The fact is that Pakistan is constantly participating in border conflicts with its troubled neighbors. So the creation of PMR and the strength of this organization are fully justified. But even in Pakistan itself, this intelligence has a very mixed attitude; it is also called the "state in the state." Pakistani interagency intelligence is constantly in the field of vision of Western intelligence agencies and this interest does not subside. US officials constantly accuse Pakistan’s intelligence agencies of having links with terrorist organizations and say that the PMO supports the Taliban. But this Islamic movement is officially declared by the UN as a terrorist organization. Amid such a confrontation, the recent transfer of two US Navy reconnaissance aircraft to Pakistan's maritime reconnaissance cannot but surprise us. It must have been another espionage plot.

PFRS (Germany). The German Federal Intelligence Service has in its account a whole set of well-known successful operations that have been carried out over the long years of the existence of this influential organization. Without a doubt, the Fed is an important factor influencing the policies of many world states. Intelligence has a rather complicated structure, which is due to the numerous sets that employees have to solve in the framework of ensuring national security. Nevertheless, even in the history of such a powerful organization, there were some curious cases. In 1997, the Fed’s foreign intelligence officers were put in jeopardy. The organization’s management issued special badges with the words “I love the Fed.” The profit from their sale was to go to the construction of kindergartens for intelligence officers. The situation’s humor consisted in the fact that almost all employees had children go for a walk to the German sites with such badges on their chests. But their parents were engaged in secret activities, including in other countries. Finding out exactly who works as a result of intelligence turned out to be simple.

PGDVB (France). Despite the French scornfully nicknamed “Frogs”, the General Directorate of External Security has one of the most common spy networks not only in Europe, but even in the United States. Agents of the French secret services have long had a high reputation. They have excellent training, being considered very inventive in extracting valuable information. But when a wide continuous stream of emigrants poured into France, the French special services began to pay more attention to the threat of terrorism and possible terrorist attacks. Although the country's leadership is trying to convince its citizens that the flow of visitors is carefully filtered, in France clashes are constantly taking place with the participation of recent emigrants. Recently, a native of Algeria shot and killed three French soldiers, claiming to be acting on behalf of al Qaeda. However, intelligence did not reveal any ties between the killer and the terrorist organization, which the authorities officially announced.

PMGB (China). Thanks to the Ministry of State Security, the work of foreign spies in China is extremely complicated. The fact is that the country has a highly debugged denunciation system, which was carefully built by this intelligence. Even the almighty West admits that it is powerless in front of the Chinese MGB. In this country, they are used to planning everything for decades to come. The Chinese themselves calmly admitted their lag in the technical equipment of the army from the same Americans and emphasized information technology and special services equipment. It is no coincidence that news constantly appears about how another Chinese hacker hacked another security system of a certain American server. And it’s not a fact that these specialists are homegrown self-taught, and not special services. The Chinese leadership says that the MGB is engaged in ensuring state security. This is carried out by carrying out effective measures against the invasion of spies, enemy agents and counter-revolutionaries, who, with their activity, set the goal of undermining the country's socialist system. Such terminology will seem familiar to us, former citizens of the USSR.

PMI6 (UK). Even those far from the film industry know about this intelligence service. The British MI6 became famous thanks to its invincible super spy James Bond. Cinema said that British intelligence has the most modern and unusual types of weapons, the fastest cars and the most sophisticated spy devices. It is here that the most beautiful female agents serve, and Bond's colleagues receive the most difficult tasks. But before 1949, the British leadership generally denied the existence of the Secret Intelligence Service, engaged in foreign intelligence. This is the best indicator of secrecy surrounding the legendary MI6. The activities of the scouts were all shrouded in a veil of secrecy. In fact, the situation was such that any secret mission in the event of failure turned into a one-way trip with a ticket. The fact is that senior British officials never recognized the belonging of the failed agent to their secret service. But indeed its very existence has long been a secret. So do not be surprised that many mysterious stories, speculations and secrets hang around MI6.

PCRU (USA). Is it worth representing the all-powerful Central Intelligence Agency of America? There are so many scandals around this organization that it would be enough for a dozen other, more modest, special services. In our country for a long time the image of the CIA was cultivated not just as an enemy, but as an evil and treacherous machine that constantly dug under the foundations of the Soviet Union. The CIA gained particular strength during the Cold War, with this word it was possible to scare people. With the collapse of the USSR, the special services did not diminish their problems; now it is intensively engaged in international terrorism. Perhaps such a struggle was even too zealous, because the enemy began to be destroyed on its territory. However, the main thing is that America’s national interests have been respected. Perhaps this is how the ideal intelligence agency should work? It is noteworthy that in his 50th birthday, President Clinton even announced about the CIA agents: "... Americans will never know the whole story of their courage." So the exploits of the special agents remain largely unknown to the general public, even the full range of issues that the CIA deals with remains unclear.

PKGB (USSR). This intelligence service, there was a time, the whole world was afraid. Even the citizens of the former Soviet Union feared it. Many breathed a sigh of relief when, in 1991, the State Security Committee was officially abolished. Despite this, the echoes of the activities of the secret organization still make many shake with fear. I must say that in many ways this was facilitated by myths and anti-Soviet propaganda spread by the same CIA. It is believed that the KGB developed a whole system of denunciations, which worked no worse than in China. The KGB archives still contain documents and the most resonant secrets - UFOs, Hitler’s death, conspiracies, assassinations, etc. The secret service has a lot of secrets, and its activities in other countries during the existence of the USSR is an even bigger issue than information about the fate of Hitler’s remains. Dissidents disappeared and died on the streets of peaceful cities, revolutions took place in third world countries, and information snuck in front of other omnipotent services. Today, the KGB seems to be just a tool to combat the dissenting Soviet intelligentsia. However, do not underestimate the efforts of the special services in preserving the statehood of the USSR.

PMossad (Israel). It is in this small country that the most powerful intelligence service is considered, whose employees are the most trained professionals. Both America and Russia are left behind. Experts unanimously consider the most professional Office of Intelligence and Special Tasks of Israel or the Mossad. The principle of work here is not much different from competitors. Mossad still collects information and analyzes it, and also conducts secret operations outside of Israel. The task of the special services is the security of the country and the preservation of its integrity, which is often attempted. Mossad employees are most suitable for the role of knights of a cloak and dagger. Indeed, thanks to the efforts of agents in Israel, it is possible to maintain peace and tranquility. But such hotbeds of tension nearby as Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Egypt are burning nearby. Complexity is added by the fact that many representatives of various ethnic groups, religious teachings and faiths are mixed in the country. It is not surprising that many scouts travel to Israel to learn effective work methods.

German Federal Intelligence Service, BND

Directorate General of External Security, DGSE (France)

Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ASIS

Research and Analysis Division, RAW (India)

Office of Intelligence and Special Tasks, Mossad (Israel)

Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, FSB

UK Secret Intelligence Service MI-6

Central Intelligence Agency, CIA (USA)

The Central Intelligence Agency is an American secret agency whose main functions are covert operations, as well as the collection and analysis of information about foreign governments, organizations, companies and individuals. The special service was created in 1947. Headquartered in Langley, Virginia, 13 km from Washington.

Pakistan Inter-Agency Intelligence, ISI

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