Top 10 Most Powerful Intelligence Agencies in the World

September 4, 2016

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Did you know which are the Most Powerful Intelligence Agencies in the World? CIA is considered as the best secret service in the world. The intelligence agencies help the country to cope with security matters and to protect the nation from likely security breach; the core purpose of spy agencies is the collection of secret information to secure the country from any internal and external happening which harm the stability of state either economically or politically.

The intelligence agencies also provide indirect security to the tangible and intangible infrastructure of the country like the nuclear program or any document containing sensitive information. Personnel of any intelligence agency has been called agents, spies or undercover officers. Here are Top 10 Most Powerful Intelligence Agencies in the World which are working for their respective countries to lock the safety of the nation.

10) Ministry of State Security (MSS), China

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Formed: July 1983
Headquarters: Beijing
Employees: –
Website: –

9) Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Australia

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Formed: 13 May 1952
Headquarters: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Employees: –
Website: www.asis.gov.au

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

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Formed: 2 April 1982
Headquarters: 141 Boulevard Mortier, Paris XX, France
Employees: 5,161 (estimate)
Website: www.defense.gouv.fr

7) Bundesnachrichtendienst, (BND) Germany

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Formed: 1 April 1956
Headquarters: Pullach and Berlin, Germany
Employees: 6,500 (estimate)
Website: www.bnd.de

6) Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India

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Formed: 21 September 1968
Headquarters: New Delhi, India
Employees: –
Website: –