Intelligence Agencies Around the Globe

The CIA isn't the only national intelligence agency to operate on a large scale. Some people even argue that there are others that outperform America's own intelligence agency. The CIA also operates with allied agencies to gather necessary intelligence and deal with issues pertaining to national defense or foreign relations. For example, the British MI5 and MI6, made especially famous by media like the James Bond movies, have been quite efficient as well gathering intelligence for the Great Britian and its allies. Russia has the particularly revered KGB, and the Isrealis have the Mossad. Each agency has highly trained and dangerous operatives. Most are friendly towards the CIA, but in times of high tension and war, they may not be. In cases such as the Cold War, two agencies could be working to find the other's secrets and exploit weaknesses, much as the CIA and the KGB did. Time breeds conflict, and in these conflicts, information is key. This being so, each country has made efforts to obtin this intelligence. The United States has the CIA to cover, and for many years they have held their own.