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US, Europe, Africa Intelligence Service (B03)/Cục Tình báo Mỹ - Âu - Phi (B03) Bureau of Secret Intelligence (B04)/Cục Tình báo phương thức mật (B04) Bureau of Economic, Scientific, Technical and Environmental Intelligence (B05)/Cục Tình báo kinh tế, khoa học, kỹ thuật và môi trường(B05)
The British Secret Service Bureau (SIS from c. 1920) was founded in 1909 as the first independent and interdepartmental agency fully in control over all British government espionage activities. William Melville helped establish the first independent intelligence agency, the British Secret Service and became its first chief
The Secret Service is the lead agency in charge of the planning, coordination, and implementation of security operations for events designated as National Special Security Events (NSSE). As part of the service's mission of preventing an incident before it occurs, the agency relies on advance work and threat assessments developed by its ...
On June 18, 1948, the National Security Council issued Directive 10/2 [23] "[calling] for covert operations to attack the Soviets around the world," [24] and giving the CIA the authority to carry out covert operations "against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and ...
A secret service is a government agency, intelligence agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data.The tasks and powers of a secret service can vary greatly from one country to another.
A scathing 2015 congressional report called the Secret Service an “agency in crisis” and detailed a series of alarming failings, including: In 2011, a gunman fired at least seven rounds into ...
The SIS Building, headquarters of MI6, in London, United Kingdom The George Bush Center for Intelligence, headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, United States The Ministry of State Security in Beijing, China The headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service in Moscow, Russia The headquarters of the Directorate-General for External Security in Paris, France
The four main agencies are the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), the Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). The agencies are organised under three government departments, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence.