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The distinction between secret societies, intelligence agencies or international groups may be slightly moot on occasions. Many are officially allowed to commit serious crimes such as murder, and are subject to minimal effective oversight anyway.

Intelligence agencies are also called "security services" although their modus operandi does not seem to focus on security of people as much as deep state groups.

Official Narrative

For reasons of "national security", nation states need "intelligence services" to gather secrets from other countries (or from individuals or groups inside their own host nation) while preventing other intelligence agencies from discovering such secrets. Members of these groups must not be publicly identified as such and they should not be constrained by laws that apply to other people. Since governments oversee their activities, the consensists given is that the general public does not need to have such oversight. As US President Barack Obama asserted in 2014: "Our intelligence professionals are patriots, and we are safer because of their heroic service and sacrifices."

Problems

The justification for national intelligence agencies has a somewhat circular logic to it. In the climate of fear and suspicion generated by the cold war and the secrecy surrounding terrifying new weapons such as the nuclear bomb, the public were fairly easily persuaded for the need for the "services" they claim to provide. The 21^st century "war on terror" is however failing to galvanise people in quite the same way. Whilst intelligence agencies have a long history of carrying out false flag attacks, awareness of this fact in the 20^th century was limited. The widespread understanding of 9/11 as a plan devised by deep state insiders has perpetrated increasing questions to be asked about intelligence agencies. Many people are now asking what justification there can be for organisations that claim the right to break laws, and carry out murder, torture or mass surveillance amidst an "ends justifies the means" culture. In practice, many, perhaps most, intelligence agencies lack effective oversight, leading to concerns about their unaccountability and the seemingly ever increasing secrecy surrounding their operations.

“There is something very wrong indeed with the UK security services, which are most certainly not a force for freedom or justice. That MI6 can be headed by as extreme a figure as Dearlove, underlines the threat that the security services pose to any progressive movement in politics.”
Craig Murray (11 January 2019) 

Activities

The "intelligence" (i.e. information gathering, nowadays in large part by mass surveillance) is one part of the activities of intelligence agencies. Another major strand is covert operations, including assassination, drug trafficking (most notably by the CIA) and associated money laundering, cyberterrorism (probably most notably by the NSA and the Mossad) and a spectrum of clandestine regime change" efforts.

Covert Action

Full article: Covert Action

Covert Action invariably means breaking the law of and in other countries. With the resulting back and forth this can not lead to peace, even when those who have done this as their daily bread argue that it does bring stability, as Theodore Shackley in his book: The Third Option does. The attitude in "the business" is exemplified by Patrick Clawson in a 2012 QA at the Policy Forum in Washington.

Token public oversight

A global effort was made ^[When?][1990s?] to establish at least a token system of oversight for intelligence agencies in countries including the UK and the USA. However, their continuing culture of secrecy means that such a project was unlikely (and probably never intended) to achieve more than a check on the very crassest abuses. As the "war on terror" began to roll back civil liberties, undermine human rights and ramp up government secrecy, intelligence agencies have been rolling back secrecy again. In March 2019, Donald Trump removed a requirement for US intelligence agencies to report on civilian casualties that occurred during their operations.

Deep state control

Full article: Deep state

The culture of secrecy, the large, often undisclosed, budgets of intelligence agencies, together with their freedom to operate outside the restrictions of national laws makes them ideal for carrying out deep events such as assassinations or false flag terror attacks. This has made them a core component of deep states, with probably no more than a token loyalty to the "national interest".

Private intelligence

The focus on privatisation in the US and UK since the 90s has brought a number of private intelligence organisations into existence.

Selected Examples

• EUROPE
  • Aegis Defence Services
  • Control Risks Group
  • Frontier Horizons
  • Group GEOS
  • Hakluyt & Company
  • Orbis Business Intelligence
  • Oxford Analytica
  • Patrium Intelligence

• NORTH AMERICA
  • Aggregate IQ
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Fusion GPS
  • Kroll Inc
  • Pinkerton National Detective Agency
  • Smith Brandon International, Inc.
  • Stratfor
  • Northrop Grumman

• ISRAEL​
  • Archimedes
  • Black Cube
  • NSO Group

 

Intelligence agencies on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Nation state	Logo	WWW	Description
Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah	Saudi Arabia
BND	Germany		http://www.bnd.de
Booz Allen Hamilton	Deep state/Supranational nature		http://www.boozallen.com/	A for-profit part of the US Deep State.
CIA	US		http://www.CIA.gov	The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations.
CIA/Directorate of Operations	CIA			CIA directorate
CIA/Directorate of Plans				A branch of the CIA for just over 20 years.
CIA/Near East and South Asia Division	CIA/Directorate of Operations
Confidential Intelligence Unit	National Public Order Intelligence Unit
Covert Intelligence Service			https://www.covertintelligenceservice.com/	American private intelligence company that allow private citizens to pay to be trained by former field intelligence operatives
Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
DGSE	France		http://www.defense.gouv.fr/dgse	French foreign intelligence agency
DIA	US/Department/Defense		http://www.dia.mil
Defence Intelligence Division (SANDF)
Diligence			http://www.diligence.com	An industrial espionage network fronted by former members of the establishment.
Direction de la surveillance du territoire	France
Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service	Netherlands			Dutch military intelligence agency. Employed disappeared spook Willem Matser, covered up thefts of Operation Gladio weapon depots by a gang of liasons of the royal family.
Force Research Unit	UK/Army
GCHQ	UK		http://www.gchq.gov.uk	The UK equivalent of the NSA, which carries out mass surveillance on a lot of the world's internet traffic
Gehlen Organization
Gestapo
Hakluyt & Company Ltd				Hakluyt is a privately owned intelligence agency founded in 1995 by UK spooks. It has close ties to the UK deep state, MI6, Shell and BP.
Inter-Services Intelligence	Pakistan
Iraqi National Intelligence Service
Irish Joint Section	MI6 MI5
Israel/Military Intelligence Directorate			http://www.idf.il
Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre	MI5			The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre reports to the head of MI5 although it is not formally part of the Security Service.
Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group	GCHQ			Subunit of GCHQ that uses deception, dirty tricks, fake news to discredit people on the internet to "deny, disrupt, degrade and deceive".
KGB	Russia
Lekem	Israel/Defence Ministry
MI5	UK		https://www.mi5.gov.uk	MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core in the main British domestic intelligence service.
MI5/A Branch	MI5
MI5/B Branch	MI5
MI5/C Branch	MI5			A now defunct division of MI5, incorporated into D Branch in 1994.
MI5/D Branch	MI5
MI5/E Branch	MI5
MI5/F Branch	MI5
MI5/G Branch	MI5
MI5/H Branch	MI5
MI5/K Branch	MI5
MI5/T Branch	MI5
MI6	UK		http://www.mi6.gov.uk	British foreign secret intelligence service.
Mossad			http://www.mossad.gov.il/default.aspx	"Mossad" (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks). It is the Israeli State Agency with overall responsible for external intelligence and covert operations.
Muslim Contact Unit	Metropolitan Police			Spooky unit of the UK Metropolitan Police interested in "radicalisation" of Muslims.
National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit			http://www.netcu.org.uk	UK police intelligence agency interested in "extremism"
Naval Intelligence Division				UK Naval intelligence, originally named the 'Foreign Intelligence Committee'.
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service	New Zealand		http://www.security.govt.nz	New Zealand's internal spy service
Office of Naval Intelligence	US/Navy		http://www.oni.navy.mil	Long established US intelligence agency targeted on 9-11
Office of Policy Coordination				A forerunner of the CIA, "staffed by reckless adventurers"
Office of Strategic Services				Precursor to the CIA.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence			http://www.dni.gov/	Its goal is as "to effectively integrate foreign, military and domestic intelligence in defense of the homeland and of United States interests abroad."
... further results

 

Examples

Page name	Description
"Alfa"
AIVD	Intelligence agency of the Dutch Deep state. Recruits 15 year olds. Planted Stuxnet. World-champion wiretapping. Rejected evidence of Mabel van Oranje's criminal friends.
Agency for National Security Planning
Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna
Aginter Press	International anti-communist mercenary and "terrorist" organization, subcontracting for intelligence services, disguised as a pseudo-press agency.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service	The Australian foreign intelligence agency, but has tentacles all over society, especially in the media.
Australian Signals Directorate	Australian snooping agency, foreign, and probably also domestic.
BOSS	The main South African state intelligence agency
Belgian State Security Service
Black Cube	Spooky Israeli business intelligence agency
Bureau of State Security
CIA	The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations.
Cesid	Spanish intelligence agency closely tied to the PSOE government of Felipe González.
Civil Cooperation Bureau
Communications Security Establishment
Control Risks	A British "private security" company set up in 1975 by David Walker (SAS), comparable to Kroll Inc set up in New York in 1972
Counterintelligence Corps	U.S. intelligence service active from 1941 to 1961. It became noticeable for recruiting and protecting former German and other Axis operatives; including by operating "ratlines" to South America. Conducted large-scale surveillance in the United States itself.
DIA
Danish Defence Intelligence Service
Defence Signals Directorate
Defense Security Command
Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service	Dutch military intelligence agency. Employed disappeared spook Willem Matser, covered up thefts of Operation Gladio weapon depots by a gang of liasons of the royal family.
FSB	Russian intelligence agency, successor to the KGB
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution	German intelligence agency
Fiji Intelligence Service	A former intelligence agency of the Republic of the Fiji Islands
GU
General Directorate for Internal Security
Gestapo
Global Issues Controllerate
Government Communications Security Bureau
Hakluyt & Company Ltd	Hakluyt is a privately owned intelligence agency founded in 1995 by UK spooks. It has close ties to the UK deep state, MI6, Shell and BP.
Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency
KKR Global Institute
Korean Central Intelligence Agency	So dependent on the CIA they didn't bother to change the name.
Kroll Inc.	The “CIA of Wall Street”
MI5	MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core in the main British domestic intelligence service.
MI6	British foreign secret intelligence service.
Mossad	"Mossad" (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks). It is the Israeli State Agency with overall responsible for external intelligence and covert operations.
NKVD
National Criminal Intelligence Service
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Information Center (Chile)	The political police and intelligence body which functioned as an organ of persecution, kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of political opponents during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Successor of DINA.
National Intelligence Centre	The Spanish combined foreign and domestic intelligence agency.
National Security Agency	"No Such Agency". Spook agency working closely with Silicon Valley
National Underwater Reconnaissance Office	US intelligence agency with very low profile
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service	New Zealand's internal spy service
Norwegian Intelligence Service	The most powerful deep state entity in Norway
Norwegian Police Security Service
Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
Office for Special Acquisition	An extra-constitutional secret intelligence organization within the Swedish Armed Forces.
... further results

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
1989	“In one sense MI6 and MI5 have got it right, are, in fact, a brilliant success. Faced with their biggest crisis of the post-war period, the end of the Red Menace which justified the budgets, the careers and the gongs, they have emerged with budgets renewed, new agendas approved; untouched by the politicians, unsupervised by anyone, still - we are not supposed to laugh - still accountable to the Crown not Parliament ( i.e. to no-one). Both MI6 and MI5 have reacted to the new conditions post Cold War in thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the 'war against drugs' the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say in Hull, on smack than it is on alcohol. And didn't I read a few months ago that MI6 had persuaded Clare Short to task them to provide her with early warning of coups in the developing world? An honest-to-goodness license to do anything, anywhere. Only a Labour government, timid and ignorant, would fall for a proposal as preposterous as that one. MI5 hardly paused for breath after losing the KGB 'threat' contained in the Soviet Embassy and its Trade Mission, before acquiring the domestic terrorism franchise from the Met Special Branch and beginning the process of hyping up the animal rights and green activists as a new terrorist threat. (And they are getting a new definition of terrorism run through the Houses of Parliament to support it.) Of course, only the politicians and some of the media - the handful who are paying any attention at all - take the talk of the war on drugs seriously. MI6 don't, I am sure; any more than they seriously intend to provide Clare Short with an early warning of coups in the Third World. At the higher levels of MI6, MI5 and all the rest they must be chortling in the senior dining rooms at the incredible gullibility of the British political class - and this present lot in particular.”	Robin Ramsay
Philip Agee	“Reforms of the FBI and the CIA, even removal of the President from office, cannot remove the problem. American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. The argument is with capitalism and it is capitalism that must be opposed, with its CIA, FBI and other security agencies understood as logical, necessary manifestations of a ruling class’s determination to retain power and privilege.”	Philip Agee	1975
Black helicopter	“More than seven years ago a group of Americans traveled to Siberia to buy a pair of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the CIA's post-9/11 clandestine operations in Afghanistan. As with many "black" programs, the contract had elements of craziness: Contracting officials paid the multimillion-dollar contract on a credit card at a local El Paso bar and then used the credit card rebate to redecorate their office; the team traveled under the guise of being private contractors; and the charter crew transporting the group abandoned the team in Russia in the middle of the night. Ultimately, a five-year investigation into the mission led to the conviction of the Army official in charge and the contractor who bought the helicopters on charges of corruption. The two men, currently in federal prison, are appealing their convictions. At first glance, it's a simple case: A few days after returning from Russia, the contractor paid off the second mortgage of the Army official in charge of the mission. Prosecutors argued that the contractor, Maverick Aviation, was unprepared for the mission, and the Army official helped cover up the problems in exchange for a payoff. The defendants at trial were barred from mentioning the CIA, Afghanistan or even 9/11. In an article for The New York Post, this author looks at what really happened in Siberia based on over two dozen interviews with people involved in the mission and trial. It's a story, that in some respects, is very different than the portrait painted by the government at trial. One interesting comparison not mentioned in the article is worth noting in light of recent purchases of Russian helicopters: In 2001, Maverick Aviation was paid $5 million for two freshly overhauled Mi-17s and spare parts, as well as travel and logistics for team of Army/CIA personnel, and got the helicopters out of Russia in under 30 days. In 2008, ARINC, a major U.S. defense contractor, was paid $322 million dollars to buy 22 Russian helicopters under a U.S. foreign military sales contract. Guess how many helicopters ARINC has delivered to Iraq after 18 months? Zero.”	Wired Sharon Weinberger	2009
Jimmy Carter	“I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic—a twinengine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.”	Jimmy Carter GQ	2005
Tom Fuentes	“If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that “We won the war on terror and everything’s great,” cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s gonna be cut in half. You know, it’s my opposite of Jesse Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’”	Tom Fuentes	2009
Malcolm Muggeridge	“In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.”	Malcolm Muggeridge	May 1966
Psychic	“I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic—a twinengine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.”	Jimmy Carter GQ	2005

 

Related Documents

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Document:Abolish Terrorist Agencies	essay	29 July 2019	David Swanson	Swanson characterises Annie Jacobsen's Surprise Kill Vanish as an apology for intelligence agencies. He deconstructs their the official narratives of defending "democracy", claiming that they have "decades of engaging in and provoking terrorism". Citing blowback from their operations as major factors in the growth of the MICC and its climate paranoia and permanent war, he calls for an end to the intelligence agencies.
Document:Counter-Intelligence: Spying Deters Democracy	interview	7 July 2014	Scott Noble Kim Petersen
Document:It’s Identity, Stupid	article	1 March 2013	Richard Thieme	Insights into the real, counter-intuitive purposes and functioning of intelligence and security services. As a consequence of their determination of developments in surveillance, computing and related esoteric military technologies, their role of service to democratically determined policy has morphed into hidden, unaccountable shapers and arbiters of all policy that matters.
Document:The Terrorists Among US- Traitors and Terror 3	article	21 June 2019	George Eliason Michael Jasinski	George Eliason interviews professor Michael Jasinski about the dire effects of outsourcing intelligence gathering and information dissemination.
Document:Their Will Be Done	article	1 August 1983	Martin A Lee	How the CIA targets powerful hierarchies for infiltration and influence. The Roman Catholic Church's claim to be the one and only authentic 'Church of Christ on Earth' does not exempt them from exploitation by deep politicians. This article powerfully demonstrates both the Catholic Church's power and its susceptibility to the machinations of Mammon. As they say in South America, "When the CIA goes to church, it doesn't go to pray."
Document:UK Intelligence And Security Report, 2003	report	June 2003	Richard M. Bennett Katie Bennett	A compendious summary of the UK Intelligence And Security agencies, including people, events and places.

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