intelligence service
State surveillance bureau
An intelligence service is a government agency that gathers, analyzes, and acts on information about foreign powers, potential threats, or matters of national security.
The work includes espionage, surveillance, and covert operations: The intelligence services intercepted communications between the suspects.
Major examples include the CIA, MI6, and Mossad.
Often pluralized as the intelligence services when referring to a country's agencies collectively.
- spyCovert information gatherer
- secret agentClandestine government operative
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- MI6UK espionage agency
covert · covert operation · black ops · agent · field agent · double agent · surveillance · classified · need to know · national security · mole · deep cover · handler · informant · counterintelligence · operative · clandestine · KGB
- wartime organizationsWar Department, USO, civil defense, Home Guard, Joint Chiefs
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
- Iraqi Governmentministries, federal court, judiciary, deputy prime minister, electoral commission
intelligence servicepress office
Organization's media relations unit
intelligence serviceWikiLeaks
Transparency organization publishing leaks
intelligence servicecivil liberties union
Rights watchdog organization
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