intelligence agency

English

Noun

intelligence agency (plural intelligence agencies)

1. A governmental agency that is tasked with information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense.

   Synonym: intelligence service

   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cerberus: The Illusive Man Codex entry:

     A mysterious maverick to say the least, the Illusive Man heads the Cerberus network. Dubbed "the illusive empire" by investigators, Cerberus is an allegedly untraceable syndicate of private intelligence agencies, biotics laboratories, engineering and scientific research teams, and lucrative front companies.

Translations

governmental agency devoted to information gathering

• Afrikaans: intelligensiediens
• Arabic: وَكَالَةْ اِسْتِخْبَار f (wakālat istiḵbār)
• Basque: inteligentzia zerbitzu
• Catalan: servei d'intel·ligència m, agència d'intel·ligència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情報局／情报局 (zh) (qíngbàojú)

• Czech: zpravodajská služba f
• Danish: efterretningstjeneste c
• Dutch: inlichtingendienst (nl) m, inteligentiedienst m
• Finnish: tiedustelupalvelu (fi)
• French: service de renseignements m, service de renseignement (fr) m
• Galician: servizo de intelixencia (gl) m, axencia de intelixencia f
• German: Nachrichtendienst (de) m, Geheimdienst (de) m
• Greek: υπηρεσία πληροφοριών f (ypiresía pliroforión)
• Japanese: 情報機関 (じょうほうきかん, jōhō-kikan), 諜報機関 (ちょうほうきかん, chōhō-kikan), スパイ機関 (supai-kikan), 特殊機関 (とくしゅきかん, tokushu-kikan), 特務機関 (とくむきかん, tokumu-kikan)
• Korean: 정보 기관(情報機關) (jeongbo gigwan)
• Macedonian: разузнавачка служба f (razuznavačka služba)
• Norwegian: etterretningstjeneste m
• Polish: służby specjalne f pl
• Portuguese: serviço de informações (pt) m, serviço de inteligência m, agência de inteligência f, inteligência (pt) f
• Romanian: serviciu de informații n
• Russian: разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka), специа́льная слу́жба f (speciálʹnaja slúžba), разве́дывательная слу́жба f (razvédyvatelʹnaja slúžba)
• Spanish: servicio de inteligencia m, agencia de inteligencia f
• Swedish: underrättelsetjänst (sv) c
• Vietnamese: cục tình báo

Further reading

• intelligence agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia