From Dir Journal Info Blog:Nearly every country in the world has an intelligence agency that is charged with espionage in order to protect its own interests in all aspects, including economic, political and military interests. While some of these agencies have agreements to share information with others for greater impact, others are very secretive and make it a point to share with no one. It is widely known that many countries have spies in other areas of the world for the purpose of gathering intelligence data. Who these spies are and exactly how they operate is more secretive in nature.
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My Comment: One stat that caught my attention was the following. Most countries have only one intelligence agency (with a "domestic only" intelligence agency thrown in). The U.S. .... it has 16. I repeat .... the U.S. has 16 intelligence agencies.
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I guess it is all a matter of counting and defining what makes an intelligence agency... e.g. in Germany, each federal state has an own "intelligence" agency, so this would already be 19, plus the 3 big ones = 22.. however, only the big 3 are counted as true intelligence.. and are comparable to the FBI, NSA, CIA (e.g. MAD, BfV/BKA, BND)
Thanks Mark for your input. Did not know that Germany had its intelligence agencies structured that way.
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