Talk:List of intelligence agencies

Iceland

For years there have been 3 items in the section for Iceland. It should not come as a surprise to anybody that Iceland has no intelligence agencies. These are the entries that have been listed as Icelandic intelligence agencies:

• Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra
• Greiningardeild Varnarmálastofnunar Íslands
• Skattrannsóknarstjóri Ríkisins

The first is just a division of the national police and may merit being listed as they do some minor intelligence gathering. The second was also a division of an agency that ceased to exist a decade ago. The third was just an agency that did tax fraud investigations and has been merged with the internal revenue service as of last month. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 23:51, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

This is just a list, the two entries there now have linked articles. Do you plan to update those pages? If the MIS has stopped operating, then the main article should reflect that, with sourcing. That seems to be only issue if you agree the NSA should stay and the tax-guys didn't belong anyway. - wolf 00:08, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Those names, NSA and MIS seem to be entirely made up. I have never heard of those divisions – they are not even agencies – referred to be those names. The MIS link is to an entirely unsourced section of the article Iceland Crisis Response Unit where there is no mention of "MIS" but rather the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. What this list refers to as NSA is a division of the national police and I can not tell from their web site that the division has any official English name. A literal translation would be "Analytical Division of the National Police Commissioner" (greiningardeild ríkislögreglustjóra). My best guess is that some years ago somebody got a bit carried away in their creative editing. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 21:46, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson: On that last point I absolutely agree with you. I just made some changes to this article, and in the coming days, planning to go country by country and remove anything that isn't linked to a WP article or has a source attached (similar to the List of military special forces units). As for the initialisms, I was just going by what's on the page. Anyway, with list articles, I usually leave entries linked to an article, having faith that the article is sufficient in content and sourcing. If you don't feel either of the Iceland entries here belong, then remove them again, I won't contest it. I will just ask that you check that the linked articles. Cheers - wolf 01:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Information Does Not Match Subject

The presented information is not a list of the world's intelligence agencies. The lust of countries opens to a profile of that nation and may not list the intelligence agency at all. WriterCPA (talk) 06:30, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Feel free to WP:FIXIT! - wolf 15:50, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

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All India Radio Monitoring Service

Hello everybody ! I'd like to add "All India Radio Monitoring Service" but I don't know where can I put this.
Accorded to my research , this organisation is not under a parent organisation like "Ministry of Defence" or another one but I'm maybe wrong.

This organisation was removed by @Silver Pavilion on "OCT/21/2025" at "16:08 UTC".
I don't understand the reason of the removal while reading the next "diff" . If "Silver Pavilion" or another one can explain this. I would be happy. Thanks to those who read my message. Anatole-berthe (talk) 22:48, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Message for someone concerning edits about Turkey

Hello @~2025-44098-44 ! I'm writing to you concerning some of yours edits about Turkey on the article "List of intelligence agencies".

Are you certain that "General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces" is not "General Staff Intelligence Directorate" ?
"General Staff Intelligence Department" is a similar name because the only difference is the word at the end. This is a redirection to the article "General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces".

Also , I suppose that you did used the next "temporary accounts". The behaviour on this article by these accounts are similar. Can you say if my supposition is right or wrong ? You're not under obligation to answer to this question. This choice is your.

1.@~2025-43705-84
2.@~2025-42114-74
3.@~2025-41358-26 Anatole-berthe (talk) 14:16, 31 December 2025 (UTC)