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Intelligence Agency is an effective instrument of a national power. Aggressive intelligence is itsprimary weapon to destabilize the target. Indeed, no one knows what the intelligence agenciesactually do so figuring out who the best intelligence service is can be difficult. The very nature ofintelligence often means that the successes will not be public knowledge for years, whereasfailures or controversial operations will be taken to the press. Its a thankless situation. Still, from

what little has emerged, one can have an idea of some of the better intelligence services outthere, with the understanding that this is based on incomplete data.

10. ASISAustralia

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 activities and
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cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas. For more than twenty years, the existenceof the agency was a secret even from its own government. Its primary responsibility is gatheringintelligence from mainly Asian and Pacific interests using agents stationed in a wide variety ofareas. Its main purpose, as with most agencies, is to protect the countrys political and economicinterests while ensuring safety for the people of Australia against national threats.

9. RAWIndia

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 Indias external intelligence agency. It was formed in September

1968, after the newly independentRepublic of India was faced with 2 consecutive wars, the

Sino-Indian war of 1962 and the India-Pakistani war of 1965, as it was evident that a credibleintelligence gathering setup was lacking. Its primary function is collection of externalintelligence, counter-terrorism and covert operations. In addition, it is responsible for obtainingand analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, in order toadvise Indian foreign policymakers. Until the creation of R&AW, the Intelligence Bureauhandled both internal and external intelligence.
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8. DGSEFrance

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

Directorate General for External Security is Frances external intelligence agency. Operatingunder the direction of the French ministry of defence, the agency works alongside the DCRI (theCentral Directorate of Interior Intelligence) in providing intelligence and national security,notably by performing paramilitary and counterintelligence operations abroad. The GeneralDirectorate for External Security (DGSE) of France has a rather short history compared to otherintelligence agencies in the region. It was officially founded in 1982 from a multitude of priorintelligence agencies in the country. Its primary focus is to gather intelligence from foreignsources to assist in military and strategic decisions for the country. The agency employs more

than five thousand people.

7. FSB Russia
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Formed 1 April 1956Employees 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 to alertthe German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily onwiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications. It collects andevaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism, WMD proliferationand illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, moneylaundering, illegal migration and information warfare. As Germanys only overseas intelligenceservice, the BND gathers both military and civil intelligence.

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5. MSSChina

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 is also

probably the Chinese governments largest and most active foreign intelligence agency, though it

is also involved in domestic security matters. Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Law gives theMSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving statesecurity with identical supervision by the procuratorates and the courts. It is headquartered nearthe Ministry of Public Security of the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing. According to LiuFuzhi, Secretary-General of the Commission for Politics and Law under the Central Committeeof the Communist Party of China and Minister of Public Security, the mission of the MSS is toensure the security of the state through effective measures against enemy agents, spies, and

counter-revolutionary activities designed to sabotage or overthrow Chinas socialistsystem. One of the primary missions of the MSS is undoubtedly to gather foreign intelligencefrom targets in various countries overseas. Many MSS agents are said to have operated in the
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Greater China region (Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) and to have integrated themselves intothe worlds numerous overseas Chinese communities. At one point, nearly 120 agents who hadbeen operating under non-official cover in the U.S., Canada, Western and Northern Europe, andJapan as businessmen, bankers, scholars, and journalists were recalled to China, a fact thatdemonstrates the broad geographical scope of MSS agent coverage.

4. CIAAmerica

Formed September 18, 1947

Employees 20,000

Agency executive Leon Panetta, Director

Parent agency Central Intelligence Group

CIA is the largest of the intelligence agencies and is responsible for gathering data from othercountries that could impact U.S. policy. It is a civilian intelligence agency of the United Statesgovernment responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United Statespolicymakers. The CIA also engages in covert activities at the request of the President of theUnited States of America. The CIAs primary function is to collect information about foreign

governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers. The agency
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conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influencethrough its Special Activities Division. It has failed to control terrorism activities including 9/11,Not even a single top level Al-Queda leader captured own its own in the past 9 yearstheymissed 1 Million Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan. Iraqs 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 Americanpeople will never know the full story of your courage. Indeed, no one knows that what CIAreally does. Highly funded and technologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the world.

3. M1-6United 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 to thesuccess of the unrealistic, yet entertaining, James Bond movies). This perception matches reality.MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA, has had two big advantages in staying effective: TheBritish Official Secrets Act and D notices can often prevent leaks (which have been the bane of
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the CIAs existence). Some stories have emerged. In the Cold War, MI6 recruited OlegPenkovsky, who played a key part in the favorable resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, andOleg Gordievski, who operated for a decade before MI6 extracted him via Finland. The Britishwere even aware of Norwoods activities, but made the decision not to tip their hand. MI6 also isrumored to have sabotaged the Tu-144 supersonic airliner program by altering documents and

making sure they fell into the hands of the KGB.

2. MossadIsrael

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, alongwith Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security), but its director reports directly

to the Prime Minister. The list of its successes is long. Israels intelligence agency is mostfamous for having taken out a number of PLO operatives in retaliation for the attack that killedeleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. However, this agency has othersuccess to its name, including the acquisition of a MiG-21 prior to the Six-Day war of 1967 andthe theft of the plans for the Mirage 5 after the deal with France went sour. Mossad also assistedthe United States in supporting Solidarity in Poland during the 1980s.
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1. ISIPakistan

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 Pakistans Military Intelligence during the Indo-PakistaniWar of 1947. Its success in achieving its goal without leading to a full scale invasion of Pakistanby the Soviets is a feat unmatched by any other through out the intelligence world. KGB, Thebest of its time, failed to counter ISI and protect Soviet interests in Central Asia. This GOLDMEDAL makes it rank higher than Mossad. It has had 0 double agents or Defectors through outits history, considering that in light of the whole war campaign it carried out from money earnedby selling drugs bought from the very people it was bleeding, The Soviets. It has protected itsNuclear Weapons since formed and it has foiled Indian attempts to attain ultimate supremacy inthe South-Asian theatres through internal destabilization of India. It is above All laws in its hostcountry Pakistan A State, with in a State. Its policies are made outside of all other institutions

with the exception of The Army. Its personnel have never been caught on camera. Its is believedto have the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000. The most striking thing is thatits one of the least funded Intelligence agency out of the top 10 and still the strongest.
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