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10. ASIS Australia

Formed 13 May 1952

Headquarters Canberra , Australian Capital Territory , Australia

Annual budget $162.5m AUD (2007)

Minister responsible The Hon. Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs

Agency executive Nick Warner, Director-General

Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the Australian government intelligence agencyresponsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activitiesand cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas. For more than twenty years, theexistence of the agency was a secret even from its own government. Its primaryresponsibility is gathering intelligence from mainly Asian and Pacific interests using agentsstationed in a wide variety of areas. Its main purpose, as with most agencies, is to protect

the countrys political and economic interests while ensuring safety for the people ofAustralia against national threats.

9. RAW India

Formed 21 September 1968

Headquarters New Delhi , India

Agency executive K. C. Verma, Secretary (R)

Parent agency Prime Ministers Office, GoI

Research and Analysis Wing is India s external intelligence agency. It was formed inSeptember 1968, after the newly independentRepublic of India was faced with 2consecutive wars, the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and the India-Pakistani war of 1965, as itwas evident that a credible intelligence gathering setup was lacking. Its primary function iscollection of external intelligence, counter-terrorism and covert operations. In addition, it isresponsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments,corporations, and persons, in order to advise Indian foreign policymakers. Until thecreation of R&AW, the Intelligence Bureau handled both internal and external intelligence.

8. DGSE France

Formed April 2, 1982

Preceding agency External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service

Minister responsible Herv Morin, Minister of Defence

Agency executive Erard Corbin de Mangoux, Director


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Directorate General for External Security is France s external intelligence agency.Operating under the direction of the French ministry of defence, the agency worksalongside the DCRI (the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence) in providingintelligence and national security, notably by performing paramilitary andcounterintelligence operations abroad. The General Directorate for External Security

(DGSE) of France has a rather short history compared to other intelligence agencies in theregion. It was officially founded in 1982 from a multitude of prior intelligence agencies inthe country. Its primary focus is to gather intelligence from foreign sources to assist inmilitary and strategic decisions for the country. The agency employs more than fivethousand people.

7. FSB Russia

Formed 3 April, 1995

Employees 350,000

Headquarters Lubyanka Square

Preceding agency KGB

The Federal Security Service of Russian Federation (FSD) is the main domestic securityagency of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka,NKVD and KGB. The FSB is involved in counter-intelligence, internal and bordersecurity, counter-terrorism, and surveillance. Its headquarters are on Lubyanka Square ,downtown Moscow , the same location as the former headquarters of the KGB. All lawenforcement and intelligence agencies in Russia work under the guidance of FSB, ifneeded. For example, the GRU, spetsnaz and Internal Troops detachments of RussianMinistry of Internal Affairs work together with the FSB in Chechnya . The FSB isresponsible for internal security of the Russian state, counterespionage, and the fightagainst organized crime, terrorism, and drug smuggling. The number of FSB personnel andits budget remain state secrets, although the budget was reported to jump nearly 40% in2006.

6. BND Germany

Formed 1 April 1956

Employees 6,050

Agency executive Gehlen Organization

Parent agency Central Intelligence Group

The Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence agency of the German government,under the control of the Chancellors Office. The BND acts as an early warning system toalert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It dependsheavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications. Itcollects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism,WMD proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug


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trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare. As Germany sonly overseas intelligence service, the BND gathers both military and civil intelligence.

5. MSS China

Jurisdiction Peoples Republic of China

Headquarters Beijing

Agency executive Geng Huichang, Minister of State Security

Parent agency State Council

Ministry of State Security is the security agency of the Peoples Republic of China . It isalso probably the Chinese governments largest and most active foreign intelligence

agency, though it is also involved in domestic security matters. Article 4 of the CriminalProcedure Law gives the MSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regularpolice for crimes involving state security with identical supervision by the procuratoratesand the courts. It is headquartered near the Ministry of Public Security of the PeoplesRepublic of China in Beijing . According to Liu Fuzhi, Secretary-General of theCommission for Politics and Law under the Central Committee of the Communist Party ofChina and Minister of Public Security, the mission of the MSS is to ensure the security ofthe state through effective measures against enemy agents, spies, and counter-revolutionaryactivities designed to sabotage or overthrow Chinas socialist system. One of the primarymissions of the MSS is undoubtedly to gather foreign intelligence from targets in variouscountries overseas. Many MSS agents are said to have operated in the Greater China region(Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan ) and to have integrated themselves into the worldsnumerous overseas Chinese communities. At one point, nearly 120 agents who had beenoperating under non-official cover in the U.S. , Canada , Western and Northern Europe,and Japan as businessmen, bankers, scholars, and journalists were recalled to China , a factthat demonstrates the broad geographical scope of MSS agent coverage.

4. CIA America

Formed September 18, 1947

Employees 20,000

Agency executive Leon Panetta, DirectorParent agency Central Intelligence Group

CIA is the largest of the intelligence agencies and is responsible for gathering data fromother countries that could impact U.S. policy. It is a civilian intelligence agency of theUnited States government responsible for providing national security intelligence to seniorUnited States policymakers. The CIA also engages in covert activities at the request of thePresident of the United States of America . The CIAs primary function is to collectinformation about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public


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policymakers. The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exertsforeign political influence through its Special Activities Division. It has failed to controlterrorism activities including 9/11, Not even a single top level Al-Queda leader capturedown its own in the past 9 years they missed 1 Million Soviet troops marching intoAfghanistan. Iraq s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Have the found them yet? -Number of

defectors/ double agents numbers close to a thousand. On 50th anniversary of CIA,President Clinton said By necessity, the American people will never know the full story ofyour courage. Indeed, no one knows that what CIA really does. Highly funded andtechnologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the world.

3. M1-6 United Kingdom

Formed 1909 as the Secret Service Bureau

Jurisdiction Government of the United Kingdom

Headquarters Vauxhall Cross, London

Minister responsible The Rt Hon. William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary

Agency executive Sir John Sawers KCMG, Director General

Parent agency Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The British have had a long public perception of an effective intelligence agency (due tothe success of the unrealistic, yet entertaining, James Bond movies). This perceptionmatches reality. MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA, has had two big advantages instaying effective: The British Official Secrets Act and D notices can often prevent leaks(which have been the bane of the CIAs existence). Some stories have emerged. In the ColdWar, MI6 recruited Oleg Penkovsky, who played a key part in the favorable resolution ofthe Cuban Missile Crisis, and Oleg Gordievski, who operated for a decade before MI6

extracted him via Finland . The British were even aware of Norwood s activities, but madethe decision not to tip their hand. MI6 also is rumored to have sabotaged the Tu-144supersonic airliner program by altering documents and making sure they fell into the handsof the KGB.

2. Mossad Israel

Formed December 13, 1949 as the Central Institute for Coordination

Employees 1,200 (est)

Agency executive Meir Dagan, Director

Parent agency Office of the Prime Minister

The Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection and covert operations includingparamilitary activities. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community,along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security), but its directorreports directly to the Prime Minister. The list of its successes is long. Israel s intelligenceagency is most famous for having taken out a number of PLO operatives in retaliation forthe attack that killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich .


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However, this agency has other success to its name, including the acquisition of a MiG-21prior to the Six-Day war of 1967 and the theft of the plans for the Mirage 5 after the dealwith France went sour. Mossad also assisted the United States in supporting Solidarity inPoland during the 1980s.

1. ISI Pakistan

Formed 1948

Jurisdiction Government of Pakistan

Headquarters Islamabad , Pakistan

Agency executive Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, PA Director General

With the lengthiest track record of success, the best know Intelligence so far on the scale ofrecords is ISI. The Inter-Services Intelligence was created as an independent unit in 1948 inorder to strengthen the performance of Pakistan s Military Intelligence during the Indo-

Pakistani War of 1947. Its success in achieving its goal without leading to a full scaleinvasion of Pakistan by the Soviets is a feat unmatched by any other through out theintelligence world. KGB, The best of its time, failed to counter ISI and protect Sovietinterests in Central Asia . This GOLD MEDAL makes it rank higher than Mossad. It hashad 0 double agents or Defectors through out its history, considering that in light of thewhole war campaign it carried out from money earned by selling drugs bought from thevery people it was bleeding, The Soviets. It has protected its Nuclear Weapons sinceformed and it has foiled Indian attempts to attain ultimate supremacy in the South-Asiantheatres through internal destabilization of India . It is above All laws in its host countryPakistan A State, with in a State. Its policies are made outside of all other institutionswith the exception of The Army. Its personnel have never been caught on camera. Its isbelieved to have the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000. The moststriking thing is that its one of the least funded Intelligence agency out of the top 10 andstill the strongest.

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