World's Top 10 Intelligence Agency

An Intelligence Agency is an effective instrument of a national power. Aggressive intelligence is its primary weapon to destabilize the target. Indeed, no one knows what the intelligence agencies actually do so figuring out who the best intelligence service is can be difficult. The very nature of intelligence often means that the successes will not be public knowledge for years, whereas failures or controversial operations will be taken to the press. It’s a thankless situation. Still, from what little has emerged, one can have an idea of some of the better intelligence services out there, with the understanding that this is based on incomplete data.

1) Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India

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Formed                                    21 September 1968

Headquarters                          New Delhi

IndiaAgency executive           K. C. Verma

Secretary (R)Parent agency   Prime Minister’s Office, GoI

Founded in 1968, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), initially, focused its activities in India’s immediate neighbour hood but with the changing profile of New Delhi’s geo-political interests, it has spread its wings to other regions across the world. The agency is headquartered in New Delhi. Its chief directly reports to the Prime Minister and its operations do not come under the purview of Parliament. Often termed as an effective instrument of India’s national power, the RAW is believed to employ more than eight thousand field agents spread across the world.

2) Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan

Formed	1948
Jurisdiction	Government of Pakistan
Headquarters	Islamabad, Pakistan
Agency executive	Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, PA Director General

The Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) is said to be the top most organization with most advanced sources of information and secret agents working around the world today. Although said to be receiving the least funding as compared to other agencies stated here, but still boasts of ten thousand agents operating across the world. Although the supposedly failure in handling the Osama Bin Laden case did reduce its credit, but for a very less time until it proved its worthiness sooner with other issues prevailing in the present day - It is above All laws in its host country 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 believed to have the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000. The most striking thing is that its one of the least funded Intelligence agency out of the top 10.

3) Military Intelligence Section 6 (MI6), 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 to the success 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: The British Official Secrets Act and D notices can often prevent leaks (which have been the bane of the CIA’s existence). Some stories have emerged. In the Cold War, MI6 recruited Oleg Penkovsky, who played a key part in the favorable resolution of the 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 made the decision not to tip their hand. MI6 also is rumored to have sabotaged the Tu-144 supersonic airliner program by altering documents and making sure they fell into the hands of the KGB.

4) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), USA

               

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 other countries that could impact U.S. policy. It is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers. The CIA also engages in covert activities at the request of the President of the United States of America. The CIA’s primary function is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers. The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through 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 years – ‘they missed 1 Million’ Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan’. 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 of your courage. Indeed, no one knows that what CIA really does”. Highly funded and technologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the world.

5) Ministry of State Security (MSS), China

Jurisdiction	People’s Republic of China
Headquarters	Beijing
Agency executive	Geng Huichang, Minister of State Security
Parent agency	State Council

 Known to be the most active and the largest agency operating under the Government of the People’s Republic of China the agency plays an active role in handling domestic issues as well. It is also said that the Ministry of State Security Agency works closely with other international intelligence Agencies such as ISI from Pakistan.Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Law gives the MSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving state security with identical supervision by the procuratorates and the courts. It is headquartered near the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. According to Liu Fuzhi, Secretary-General of the Commission for Politics and Law under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Public Security, the mission of the MSS is to ensure “the security of the state through effective measures against enemy agents, spies, and counter-revolutionary activities designed to sabotage or overthrow China’s socialist system.”  

6) The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (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 including paramilitary 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 director reports directly to the Prime Minister. The list of its successes is long. this agency has other success to its name, including the acquisition of a MiG-21 prior to the Six-Day war of 1967 and the theft of the plans for the Mirage 5 after the deal with France went sour. Mossad also assisted the United States in supporting Solidarity in Poland during the 1980s.

7) Direction Generale De La Securite Exterieure (DGSE), France

Formed	April 2, 1982
Preceding agency	External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service

Minister responsible	Hervé Morin, Minister of Defence
Agency executive	Erard Corbin de Mangoux, Director

The Agency specializes in gathering and disseminating information related to external intelligence. The Agency operates under the directions and supervision of Ministry of Defence. The Agency also operates parallel with the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, whilst focusing on internal and external intelligence concerning national security.

8) Bundesnachrichtendienst (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 Chancellor’s Office. The BND acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications. It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international terrorism, WMD proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare. As Germany’s only overseas intelligence service, the BND gathers both military and civil intelligence.

9) Federal Security Services (FSB), Russia

Formed	3 April, 1995
Employees	350,000
Headquarters	Lubyanka Square
Preceding agency	KGB

Federal Security Services is the top most domestic security organization of the Russian Federation and is also known to be the successor agency of the KGB. The Agency is among the best in countering terrorism, cross border security and surveillance. Headquartered in Lubyanka Square, downtown Moscow, the agency is also believed to work with RAW (India) and other ex-soviet agencies in russia.

10) Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Australia

Formed13 May 1952HeadquartersCanberra, Australian Capital Territory, AustraliaAnnual budget$162.5m AUD (2007)Minister responsibleThe Hon. Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign AffairsAgency executiveNick Warner, Director-General

Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the Australian government intelligence agency responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activities and cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas. For more than twenty years, the existence of the agency was a secret even from its own government. Its primary responsibility is gathering intelligence from mainly Asian and Pacific interests using agents stationed in a wide variety of areas. Its main purpose, as with most agencies, is to protect the country’s political and economic interests while ensuring safety for the people of Australia against national threats.

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