Top 10 Intelligence Agencies in the world – Part II

Top 10 Intelligence Agencies in the world – Part II

3. M1-6 – United Kingdom

The British have had a long public perception of an effective intelligence agency (due to the success of the unrealistic, yet entertaining, James Bond movies). This perception matches reality. MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA, has had two big advantages
in staying effective: The British Official Secrets Act and D notices can often prevent leaks (which have been the bane of the CIA’s existence).

Some stories have emerged. In the Cold War, MI6 recruited Oleg Penkovsky, who played a key part in the favourable resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Oleg Gordievski, who operated for a decade before MI6 extracted him via Finland. The British were
even aware of Norwood’s activities, but made the decision not to tip their hand. MI6 also is rumoured to have sabotaged the Tu-144 supersonic airliner program by altering documents and making sure they fell into the hands of the KGB.

4. CIA – America

CIA is the largest of the intelligence agencies and is responsible for gathering data from other countries that could impact U.S. policy. It is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government responsible for providing national security intelligence
to senior United States policymakers.

The CIA also engages in covert activities at the request of the President of the United States of America. The CIA’s primary function is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers.

The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through its Special Activities Division. It has failed to control terrorism activities including 9/11, Not even a single top level Al-Queda leader captured
own its own in the past 9 years – ‘they missed 1 Million’ Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan’. Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Have the found them yet? -Number of defectors/ double agents numbers close to a thousand.

On 50th anniversary of CIA, President Clinton said”By necessity, the American people will never know the full story of your courage. Indeed, no one knows that what CIA really does”. Highly funded and technologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the
world.

Posted by Fahad Zafar on Dec 10 2011. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan, World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry