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Counterintelligence Service

Internal Counter-Intelligence Service, fictional British military organization from the UNIT audio plays by Big Finish


Boutros Khawand

It is widely believed that he is still alive in one of the Syrian jails, most probably in Mezzeh prison or in the "Sab' Bahrat" (Seven Seas) prison (controlled by the Syrian Air Force intelligence service) in Damascus although some reports stated that he was later transferred to Tadmor prison.

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung

The Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA) (en. Main Reconnaissance Administration) of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, "East Germany") was the foreign intelligence service of the GDR and was an integral part of the GDR Ministry of State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit / MfS).


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Albanian Subversion

Senior British intelligence officer William Hayter, who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), came to Washington, D.C. in March with a group of Secret Intelligence Service members and Foreign Office staff that included Gladwyn Jebb, Earl Jellicoe, and Peter Dwyer of SIS and a Balkans specialist.

Bruno Contrada

Bruno Contrada (born September 2, 1931) is the former police chief of Palermo and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE who was arrested based on revelations of former Sicilian Mafiosi turned pentiti, Gaspare Mutolo and Giuseppe Marchese.

Bruno Stojić

HVO intelligence service known as Security and Information Service (SIS)

Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action

According to Colonel Louis Rivet, head of the Deuxième Bureau since 1936, shortly following the defeat of France in June 1940, he, Captain Paul Paillole, and various members of the counter-intelligence service met at the Seminary of Bon-Encontre near Agen.

Dhi Qar Governorate

In the mid 1990s the governor was Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who later became police chief of the country, and in 1999, director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

Directorate 14

Headquartered in Salman Pak, this branch was one of the largest and most important directorates within the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and was responsible for the most secret and sensitive operations undertaken outside of Iraq, including espionage and assassination.

Elcock

Ward Elcock, Canadian civil servant who served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service 1994–2004

Gaspare Mutolo

Mutolo’s declarations led to the arrest of Bruno Contrada, the deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE, contributed to the indictment of Giulio Andreotti and to an understanding of the context of the 1992 murders of Salvo Lima, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

On December 24, 1992, Bruno Contrada – former Palermo police chief and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE – was arrested due to revelations of Mutolo and another pentito, Giuseppe Marchese.

Gauting

The German Federal Intelligence Service Bundesnachrichtendienst operates its electronic intelligence department from Stockdorf.

GCMA

Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés, a unit within the French counter-intelligence service active during the Cold War

Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux

Later Lieutenant-General Georges Picquart, head of the Intelligence Service, found evidence that Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy had written the bordereau, not Dreyfus.

Grégoire Orlyk

Later on Orlyk belonged to the special intelligence service of Luis XV — Secret du Roi and went on clandestine missions to many European countries, for which he received numerous praise, including highest decorations from France, Poland and Sweden.

Heinkel He 219

When the war had ended in Europe, the U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service, as part of "Operation Lusty" (LUftwaffe Secret TechnologY), took control of three He 219s at the Grove base of the 1st Night Fighter Wing (Nachtjagdgeschwader 1) in Jutland, Denmark starting on 16 June 1945.

History of Mozambique

Formed in 1975, the RENAMO (Mozambican National Resistance), an anti-communist group sponsored by the Rhodesian Intelligence Service, and sponsored by the apartheid government in South Africa as well as the United States after Zimbabwe's independence, launched a series of attacks on transport routes, schools and health clinics, and the country descended into civil war.

HVA

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, the defunct foreign intelligence service of the German Democratic Republic

I, Lucifer

Modesty is being wined and dined by René Vaubois, head of the French Deuxième Bureau (the French Intelligence Service), on a floating restaurant on the Seine.

Ion Dic Dicescu

He later worked for the Intelligence Service of the General Staff of the Southern Front and the Revolutionary Military Council.

John A. Sinclair

John Alexander Sinclair, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1953 to 1956.

Juval Aviv

He may be best known for his work with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and for having conducted the counter-terrorist operation as detailed by George Jonas in his novel, Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (1984).

Keith Batey

During 1943, Batey broke the Enigma ciphers of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Nazi party's intelligence service, along with the cipher used by Italian military attachés in Berlin.

Maximilian Ronge

After the war, aged 71, he supported the American troops in allied-administered Austria in the creation of a new intelligence service, but died in 1953 before the “Heeresnachrichtenamt” was formally established in 1955, the year Austria regained its independence.

Message pour l'éternité

The signal was detected by the antenna in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, and is thought to be coming from a Handley Page 'Heracles' aeroplane that disappeared in 1933 while carrying important Intelligence Service documents.

Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly

In an October 6, 2005 report by Charles A. Duelfer, a CIA adviser who led the arms-hunting Iraq Survey Group, Izmerly is alleged to have been a key figure in training other Iraqi chemists trying to make poison gas for military use in the 1970s, the leader of the effort to produce mustard gas, and in the 1980s was chief of the chemical section of the Iraq Intelligence Service.

Monkton Combe School

Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, 1945-, Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004 and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Palestinian National Security Forces

According to The Guardian, based on the Palestine Papers, in 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approved a plan of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 for a US-led "counter-insurgency surge" against Hamas.

Propaganda Due

General Pietro Musumeci, deputy director of Italy's military intelligence service, SISMI.

Runtime intelligence

Runtime Intelligence Service (RIS) from PreEmptive Solutions is a Runtime Intelligence endpoint that takes Runtime Intelligence data as input and aggregates, analyzes and presents dashboards and reports – either as a managed service or as an installed portal.

Shahwani

Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, former head of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service

Shalva Natelashvili

Nika Gvaramia, deputy chief prosecutor at the time, said the charges were based on evidence obtained through surveillance on employees of the Russian embassy in Tbilisi, whom the Georgian side has described as operatives of the Russian intelligence service.

Tcheka

:For the intelligence service, see Cheka

Tyler Drumheller

According to Drumheller, the CIA, with the help of a friendly intelligence service, recruited Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in Europe during the late summer of 2002.

William Wiseman

Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet, grandson of the above, head of Secret Intelligence Service in Washington, DC during the First World War

Zelman Passov

Zelman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов (1905, Staraya Russa, Russia - 15 February 1940) headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD from June to November 1938, when he was arrested.