intelligence services
State surveillance organizations
Intelligence services are government agencies that gather, analyze, and act on information relevant to national security.
This includes monitoring foreign governments, detecting threats, and sometimes conducting covert operations.
The term covers both foreign intelligence (CIA, MI6) and domestic security agencies (FBI, MI5).
Intelligence services intercepted communications between the suspects.
- MI6UK espionage agency
- cryptographyScience of secure messaging
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- deep coverProlonged covert infiltration
- counterintelligenceDefense against enemy espionage
wiretapping · Mossad · secret police · regime change · surveillance · psychological profiling · satellite imagery · NSA · need to know · classified documents · double agent · honey trap · covert operations · black ops · dead drop · dead letter box · undercover agents · national security council
- British militaryBritish Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, RAF, brigade
- Saudi ArabiaRiyadh, Mecca, Makkah, Medina, Madinah
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
- Interwar InstitutionsLeague of Nations, Comintern, Nazi Party, Weimar Republic, Bauhaus
- Algerian Governmentcommunes, presidential system, executive branch, legislative branch, judiciary
intelligence serviceswhistleblowers
Those exposing organizational misconduct
leakers · WikiLeaks · free press · investigative journalism · Edward Snowden
intelligence servicesACLU
Advocacy group for constitutional protections
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