5 Countries with Best Intelligence Agencies

3. Russia

Score: 5.29

Russia ranks among countries with the best intelligence capabilities, with several spy agencies operating in the country to ensure internal and external security. The SVR RF is the foreign intelligence agency of Moscow that succeeded the KGB in 1991, whereas the Federal Security Service (FSB) looks after internal security, espionage activities, drug trafficking, terrorism, and other organized crime. Russia’s tremendous spying capabilities go back to the Tsarist era, and still continue to remain strong.