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Famous Spies
Notable spies and intelligence operatives in history.
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Country↕ | Middle Eastern Intelligence & Security Agencies during the Cold War Era↕ | Years Active↕ | Missions↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | General Intelligence Service | 1954–Present | Counterintelligence, gathering of foreign "political and economic intelligence" |
| Military Intelligence Departement | 1952–Present | Military reconnaissance, contain anti-regime dissent within the Army | — |
| State Security Investigation Service | 1952- 2011 | Secret policing, surveillance of civilians | — |
| Syria | General Intelligence Directorate (GID) | 1971–Present | Surveillance of civilians, secret policing |
| Political Security Directorate (Department of the GID) | Monitoring of parties and media, foreign intelligence gathering | — | — |
| Military Intelligence Directorate | 1969–Present | Military Policing, unconventional Warfare | — |
| Air Force Intelligence Directorate | 1963–Present | Security of political bodies, overseas interventions | — |
| Iraq | Special Security Organisation | 1982 - 2003 | Physical security of the president, monitoring of ministries, armed forces, security and intelligence services |
| Directorate of General Security | 1921 - 2003 | Surveillance of civilians, monitoring of political & economic criminal activities | — |
| Intelligence Services | 1964 - 2003 | Internal and external intelligence gathering, monitoring of political parties, support of opposition groups in rival countries, sabotage and assassination of high targets | — |
| Jordan | General Intelligence Directorate | 1964–Present | Secret policing, foreign intelligence gathering, counterterrorism |
| Iran (Shah Period) | Organisation of Intelligence and National Security (SAVAK) | 1957 - 1979 | Foreign and domestic intelligence gathering, monitoring of opposition |
| Turkey | National Security Service (MAH) | 1926 - 1965 | Foreign intelligence gathering and counterintelligence |
| National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) | 1965–Present | — | — |
| Libya | The Jamahiriya Security Organisation | 1992 - 2011 | Foreign & internal intelligence gathering, monitoring of the Libyan diaspora, sabotage, funding of dissident groups abroad, terrorism |
| Military Secret Service | unknown | — | |
| Intelligence Bureau of the Leader | 1970s - 2011 | Supervision of the activities of the Military Secret Service, Jamahiriya Security Organisation, and revolutionary committees, physical security of Gaddafi and his Revolutionary nuns | — |
| Saudi Arabia | General Intelligence Presidency | External intelligence gathering, foreign security operations, counterterrorism, foreign liaison | |
| General Security Service | Internal Security | — | |
| General Directorate of Counterintelligence | Counterintelligence | — | |
| Lebanon | General Directorate of General Security | 1921 | External & internal intelligence gathering, monitoring of media, foreign liaison and regulating entry of foreigners |
| Israel | Mossad | 1949 | Intelligence gathering abroad, foreign liaison, psychological warfare, unconventional warfare, sabotage and assassinations |
| Shin Bet (Shabak) | 1948 | Counterespionage, monitoring of dissidents and counterterrorism | — |
| Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman) | 1953 | Gathering & analysing military intelligence from communication & electronic sources | — |
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