List of defunct intelligence agencies

This is a list of defunct intelligence agencies.

Afghanistan

 * Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD)

Albania

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

Argentina

 * Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601 Intelligence Battalion)
 * 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

Brazil

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

Bulgaria

 * Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

Chile

 * Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Directorate of Intelligence)

Colombia

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

Czechoslovakia

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

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)

Germany

 * Abwehr
 * Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police)
 * Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (Security Service)

Egypt

 * State Security Investigations Service (SSIS)

East Germany

 * Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security)
 * General Reconnaissance Administration (GDR) -- de:Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA)

Hong Kong

 * Special Branch

Hungary

 * Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department)
 * Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority)

Italy

 * Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA)
 * Cabinet RS/33

Indonesia

 * Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib)
 * Badan Koordinasi Stabilitas Nasional (Bakorstanas)

Iran

 * Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security)

Iraq

 * Al-Amn al-‘Amm (Directorate of General Security)
 * Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization)
 * Al-Istikhabarat al-'Askariyya (Directorate of General Military Intelligence)
 * Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Iraqi Intelligence Service)

Ireland

 * Free State Army Intelligence Department ("Oriel House")
 * Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
 * Citizens' Defence Force

Japan

 * Kempeitai
 * Tokeitai
 * Tokkō

Manchukuo

 * Hoankyoku

Netherlands

 * Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (Interior Security Service)
 * Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (?-1994)

Ottoman Empire

 * Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa

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)

Poland

 * Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1918-1939)
 * Biuro Szyfrów (Cypher Bureau)
 * 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

Republic of China

 * Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
 * National Committee of Investigations and Statistics

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

 * Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

 * Agentes in rebus
 * Areani
 * Frumentarii
 * Praetorian Guard

Russia

 * Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or slang Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866-1917)

Serbia

 * Služba za istraživanje i dokumentaciju (SID), Service for Research and Documentation (Ministry of foreign afaires)

Sri Lanka

 * Special Branch

Singapore

 * Special Branch

Somalia

 * National Security Service (NSS)

South Africa

 * Bureau of State Security (BOSS)

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)

Sweden

 * IB ("Informationsbyrån")

Turkey

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

United Kingdom

 * 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

 * Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

North Vietnam

 * Central Research Agency
 * Central Office for South Vietnam

South Vietnam

 * Central Intelligence Office
 * Military Security Directorate
 * Strategic Technical Directorate
 * Research and Documentation Office
 * Intelligence Directorate

Yugoslavia

 * UDBA
 * KOS (Kontraobaveštajna služba), Counterintelligence Service (General staff)