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- 1. Secret Services All over the world 2 4 3 7
- 3. 1 The Mossad, shortened name of: Hebr ew: מיוחדים ולתפקידים למודיעין המוסד - Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (pronunciation (info / explanation)), Institute for Information Gathering and Special Tasks, is one of three organizationswithin the Israeli secret service, in addition to the Aman (the secret service of theIsraeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shabak internal security service, also known as Sheen Beet. In 2018, the Mossad had about 7,000 employees spread overeight departments. The head office is located north of Tel Aviv. The Mossad was founded on 13December 1949 by the then-Isra eli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. The Mossad should not be confused with the Mossad Le'Aliyah Bet, which operated from 1939 to1948 illegal immigrationsorganized to Palestine
- 4. 1 The KGB was founded in March 1954 as the 'shield and sword' of the communist party - which was also reflected in the service's emblem- and existed until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. The service, which was a successor was known from earlier similar organizations under the names of Cheka, GPOe, NKVD and MGB, was charged with espionage, extracting classified information from non- Communist countries (particularly the US), the liquidation of non-Communist persons (carried out by Department V, the top-secret assassination and sabotage division) and the elimination of anti-communist elements. In addition, the KGB was also responsible for the security of party officials and statesmen of the Soviet Union.After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the KGB was replaced by the FSK, which was replaced in 1995 by the Federal Security Service (FSB), the current security service of Russia. The current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, started his career in 1975 in the KGB (when the later USSR Secretary General Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB) and later became head of the FSB.
- 5. 1 2 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an American security agency. It is one of the federal law enforcement agencies in the United States. The FBI was best known for J. Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 to 1972, who also had the agency investigate political activists. Only since 1935 has the agency actually been called the FBI, before that it was called the Bureau of Investigation (BOI).The FBI today acts as a crime investigation agency for terrorism, drug crimes, organized crime, espionage, forensics, computer crime, violent crimes, white collar crime and is committed to crime prevention. Since 2002, counter-terrorism has been a top priority. The FBI has a total of 35,104 employees of which 13,412 are FBI agents. The agents who do not work in the United States are stationed in US embassies and international organizations such as Interpol, Europol, the European Union and NATO.
- 6. 1 2 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the foreign intelligence agency of the United States. This agency is responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about governments, companies and individuals, and then disseminating this information to various parts of the US government.The CIA is one of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position formerly held by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.The CIA also has an extensive secret military apparatus, which during the Cold War was responsible for many attempts to overthrow governments perceived as pro-Soviet and anti-US interests, such as that of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, Soekarno in Indonesia , Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Salvador Allende in Chile.The CIA was also the driving force behind the establishment of stay-behind networks in Europe that should become active after a possible Soviet invasion there. This was also known as Operation Gladio. In addition, the CIA also has secret contacts with the Vatican, this was confirmed in October 2006 by Richard Allen, former security adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
- 7. 1 Kempeitai (Japanese: 憲兵隊) is the Japanese word for military police. The Kempeitai was the military police in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1889 to the end of World War II. The Kempeitai also acted as an intelligence agency and was notorious both in Japan and in the occupied territories of Asia. At the end of the Second World The Kempeitai was founded in 1889 as an elite corps and had 349 members. By November 1, 1945, when General D. MacArthur dismantled the organization, it had grown into a massive organization totaling 36,000 strong, including 24,000 officers—not counting native auxiliaries in occupied territories. The original function of the Kempeitai during the "Meiji period" was to discipline army officers who opposed the institution of compulsory military service. The ex- samurai, who formed a professional army, resisted the idea of leading a regular army with conscripts. war the Kempeitai numbered 36,000 men.