11. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Country: Pakistan
ISI’s full name is the Directorate General for Inter-Services Intelligence. It is the most powerful intelligence agency in Pakistan. It came to prominence during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, when, in coordination with the CIA, it managed to throw the monkey wrench into Red Army’s operations in the country, despite the KGB’s best efforts, by supplying the mujahideen with US arms and ammo. ISI’s role in Osama bin Laden’s refuge in Pakistan hasn’t been fully disclosed, but there are claims that at least some of the agency’s officials have known his whereabouts long before the United States discovered him in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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