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Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Morbeta11(op): 9:05am On Jan 07

List Of 40+ Countries' Primary Foreign Intelligence Agencies,

Intelligence agencies:

🇺🇸 United States → CIA
🇮🇱 Israel → Mossad
🇷🇺 Russia → SVR
🇬🇧 United Kingdom → MI6
🇮🇳 India → RAW
🇦🇺 Australia → ASIS
🇵🇰 Pakistan → ISI
🇩🇪 Germany → BND
🇫🇷 France → DGSE
🇨🇦 Canada → CSE
🇨🇳 China → MSS
🇿🇦 South Africa → SSA
🇮🇹 Italy → AISE
🇸🇪 Sweden → MUST
🇳🇴 Norway → Etterretningstjenesten (NIS)
🇰🇷 South Korea → NIS
🇧🇷 Brazil → ABIN
🇳🇬 Nigeria → NIA
🇪🇸 Spain → CNI
🇺🇦 Ukraine → FISU
🇵🇱 Poland → AW
🇳🇱 Netherlands → AIVD
🇮🇩 Indonesia → BIN
🇦🇷 Argentina → SIDE
🇹🇷 Turkey → MIT
🇲🇽 Mexico → National Intelligence Center (CNI-MX)
🇯🇵 Japan → CIRO
🇮🇷 Iran → MOIS
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → GIP
🇪🇬 Egypt → GIS
🇧🇪 Belgium → VSSE
🇨🇭 Switzerland → FIS
🇫🇮 Finland → SUPO
🇩🇰 Denmark → FE
🇨🇴 Colombia → DNI
🇯🇴 Jordan → GID

The post compiles a factual list of 40+ countries' primary foreign intelligence agencies, such as the CIA for the US and Mossad for Israel, aligning closely with verified sources like Wikipedia's global directory.

Posted on 6 January 2026 by @stats_feed
, a statistics-focused account, it amassed 485,000 views and 2,700 likes rapidly, indicating strong public fascination with espionage structures amid ongoing global tensions.

Replies reveal subjective perceptions, including accusations against Pakistan's ISI as a terrorist entity and queries on omissions like Bangladesh, illustrating how neutral lists can ignite debates on national security biases.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by ExplorerReturns(m): 9:32am On Jan 07

north korea - office 39. lol na igr agency be that

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Namaster: 9:57am On Jan 07

MOSSAD is number ONE on that list.
CIA is a close second.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Tradepunter2: 4:08pm On Jan 07

PAKISTAN IS ISI AKA ISIS 😂😂😂😂😂..... CHIEF TERRORIST SPONSOR

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by DMCA: 4:09pm On Jan 07

BiAfRA own na wetin abeg? grin

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by unity004(m): 4:10pm On Jan 07

I want to know that of North Korea.

Who still remember how that fat spoiled pig ( leader of North Korea) killed his brother with nerve agent?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by insidelife22(m): 4:10pm On Jan 07

Naija own no go pass to dey check better countries for politicians to dey hide their stolen funds.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by MadamVanessa(f): 4:10pm On Jan 07

What is NIA? grin

imagine

Remove the joke NIA from that place I take GOD name beg you.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Kaczynski: 4:12pm On Jan 07

NIA is non existence org, another ploy to loot funds.

They dont even have a website or track record. That show someone is using the org for shady schemes.

Nigeria is DSS

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by BeginsAtHome(f): 4:13pm On Jan 07

NIA should be the most useless of them all.

No Intelligence At all (NIA)

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by iwaeda: 4:13pm On Jan 07

The first two the most deadly and less visible. grin

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by MadamVanessa(f): 4:14pm On Jan 07

DMCA:
BiAfRA own na wetin abeg?

Talk about the joke there? The biggest joke there is NIA.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by LeeSmart: 4:14pm On Jan 07

Tradepunter2:
PAKISTAN IS ISI AKA ISIS 😂😂😂😂😂..... CHIEF TERRORIST SPONSOR

Bros u see that ISI and india RAW? these guys will best any other European intelligence agency (only CIA, MOSSAD and MSS are stronger than them)

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by UceeGod: 4:14pm On Jan 07

NIA and foreign intelligence no even follow abeg. They are better termed FG lapdogs

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by deeway200(m): 4:15pm On Jan 07

Nigeria name NIA sweet pass many countries . That Norway own, na him worst pass

Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:15pm On Jan 07

Namaster:
MOSSAD is number ONE on that list.
CIA is a close second.

How is Mossad ahead of CIA? How much Mossad get?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Josywhyte: 4:15pm On Jan 07

NIA....Non Intelligent Agency

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:16pm On Jan 07

LeeSmart:
Bros u see that ISI and india RAW? these guys will best any other European intelligence agency (only CIA, MOSSAD and MSS are stronger than them)

Which war has MSS fought and won?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by Slippy: 4:16pm On Jan 07

DMCA:
BiAfRA own na wetin abeg?

Biafra Secret Service (BSS)
Biafran Organisation of Freedom Fighters (BOFF)

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by LeeSmart: 4:16pm On Jan 07

deeway200:
Nigeria name NIA sweet pass many countries . That Norway own, na him worst pass

Na NIA been kidnap N. Kanu come Nigeria now😂😂

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:17pm On Jan 07

Kaczynski:
NIA is non existence org, another ploy to loot funds.

They dont even have a website or track record. That show someone is using the org for shady schemes.

Nigeria is DSS

DSS works within the country. NIA is foreign intelligence. Pity you don't know they exist. Wait the till the day government means your matter and you run to Ghana or someplace.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by LeeSmart: 4:18pm On Jan 07

JuanDeDios:
Which war has MSS fought and won?

These guys don't fight wars, dey deal in covert operations.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:18pm On Jan 07

LeeSmart:
These guys don't fight wars, dey deal in covert operations.

Every situation is a conflict. Which one has the MSS won?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by nairalanda1(m): 4:19pm On Jan 07

unity004:
I want to know that of North Korea.

Who still remember how that fat spoiled pig ( leader of North Korea) killed his brother with nerve agent?

Reconnaissance General Bureau.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by LeeSmart: 4:19pm On Jan 07

JuanDeDios:
DSS works within the country. NIA is foreign intelligence. Pity you don't know they exist. Wait the till the day government means your matter and you run to Ghana or someplace.

Make him go ask mazi Kanu wetin dem do am

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by nairalanda1(m): 4:19pm On Jan 07

Kaczynski:
NIA is non existence org, another ploy to loot funds.

They dont even have a website or track record. That show someone is using the org for shady schemes.

Nigeria is DSS

NIA exists. It's very secretive, that's why you don't hear about it

DSS handles domestic intelligence.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by nairalanda1(m): 4:20pm On Jan 07

ExplorerReturns:
north korea - office 39. lol na igr agency be that

Office 39 I think gets/ obtains money for the regime and also helps bypass sanctions to get stuff and money for the regime.

Essentially it operates the elite's slush fund ie for the benefit of the kims.

The actual external intelligence service of the North is the RGB or to use their Korean name,Jeongchal chongguk

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:21pm On Jan 07

LeeSmart:
Bros u see that ISI and india RAW? these guys will best any other European intelligence agency (only CIA, MOSSAD and MSS are stronger than them)

RAW is good. But they're not in the same class as CIA, MI6 or Mossad. And the other one, IS-what?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by mrkings84(m): 4:21pm On Jan 07

Me was expecting to see DSS but now I what is NIA?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by JuanDeDios: 4:22pm On Jan 07

nairalanda1:
Office 39 I think gets/ obtains money for the regime and also helps bypass sanctions to get stuff and money for the regime.

Essentially it operates the elite's slush fund ie for the benefit of the kims.

The actual external intelligence service of the North is the RGB.

So they're the ones that offed the fat one's brother that year?

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by nairalanda1(m): 4:24pm On Jan 07

mrkings84:
Me was expecting to see DSS but now I what is NIA?

National intelligence agency

It was formed in 1985 by the ibb admin when he split the National Security Organisation, which itself grew out of the Special branch / E department of the Police force into the DSS/SSS and the NIA.

Like the UK's MI6 it is very secretive. Only it's head is known. But it exists

Mnk capture in Kenya was orchestrated by the NIA.

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Re: Countries And Their Foreign Intelligence Agencies by fineboynl(m): 4:24pm On Jan 07*

Nigeria Nia are not doing anything. You hardly hear of them and I doubt they even get funding budgets

Mossad is the most integence agency in the world. Even the cia relies much on them. They can kidnap any present at will.

Even putin can be kidnap in Russia and America president can be assassinated successfully. No country is safe.

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