An intelligence agency is a national power. 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. An intelligence agency is basically a governmental agency which is made for information gathering. There purpose is the national security and defense.

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.

These agencies normally work without the knowledge of public even their successes are not remembered by the people but their failure is always the highlighted news of the press. Here we have the list of top 10 best intelligence agencies in the world and the ranking is based on their rate of success and taking care of the situations efficiently.

10. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada.

Agency overview:

Formed                                June 21, 1984, by Act of Parliament (Bill C-9)

Preceding agency            RCMP Security Service

Headquarters                    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Employees                          2449

Annual budget                  $506,573,000

Agency executive            Richard Fadden, Director

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS is Canada’s national intelligence service and connected to the military and police. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada’s national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad. CSIS ranked at position 10 in the list.

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