A Study Into the Size of the World's Intelligence Industry

National Directorate of Intelligence (DNI) Ministry of Defense and Public Security (MI) 55

Equatorial Guinea

$17,820,321.32

1,352

Eritrea

$1,419,853.94

1,650

$10,867,484.00

300

$10,867,484132

300133

$24,681,986.75

9,800

$3,453,438.79

195

$263,557,983.06

2,415

National Security Office (NSO) 57

Estonia Estonian Intelligence Bureau (EIB)

Ethiopia National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS)

Fiji Fiji Intelligence Service (FIS)

Finland General Staff Intelligence Division

132

This comes from the Estonian Ministry of Defence Budget for 2007 where it is listed under "Information Board". See: Estonian Ministry of Defence, "Estonian Ministry of Defence Budget 2007," Ministry of Defence, http://www.mod.gov.ee/?op=body&id=439 [accessed March 2, 2009]. 133 Robert Henderson, Brassey's International Intelligence Yearbook: 2003 Edition (Washington DC: Brassey's Inc, 2007), 257.

A Study Into the Size of the World's Intelligence Industry

Published on Jan 6, 2010

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This thesis determines the approximate size of the world’s intelligence industry in quantitative terms. It reviews existing literature which describes, in qualitative terms, various themes found about intelligence agencies around the world. The thesis provides a quantitative method to estimate unknown intelligence spending and personnel. The study concludes that the world’s intelligence industry spends approximately 106 billion United States Dollars, and employs about one million people. Furthermore, the hypothesized direct correlation between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and intelligence spending may exist, but the research does not strongly support the assertion. It is apparent that GDP is a factor when it comes to intelligence spending, but it does not seem to be the primary component.

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