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INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intelligence agency outside the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("international intelligence agency" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence agency; intelligence service (a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "international intelligence agency"):
Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS (Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government)
Central Intelligence Machinery; CIM (the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies)
Communications Security Establishment; CSE (Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies)
CISC; Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada (an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies)
Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence; Inter-Services Intelligence; ISI (the Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups)
Foreign Intelligence Service; Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki; SVR (Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime)
International Relations and Security Network; ISN (Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations)
IIS; Iraqi Intelligence Service; Iraqi Mukhabarat (the most notorious and possibly the most important arm of Iraq's security system)
A'man (the Israeli military intelligence which produces comprehensive national intelligence briefings for the prime minister and the cabinet)
Mossad (the Israeli foreign intelligence agency)
MI; Military Intelligence Section 6; Secret Intelligence Service (the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas)
Security Intelligence Review Committee; SIRC (an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies)
MI; Military Intelligence Section 5; Security Service (the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory)
General Security Services; Shin Bet (the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency)
