Directors of intelligence agencies

Soviet politician and NKVD police chief

Civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands 2024 to 2026

Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

Kazakhstani politician

First Vice President of Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021

Iraqi politician

Iraqi politician and military commander (1941–2010)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Iraqi Mukhabarat leader (1951-2007)

former Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs

Chinese KMT general (1897–1946)

Director of the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey

Jordanian politician

Iraqi politician (1954–1996)

Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence service (1961–2025)

former Prime Minister of Libya (1944–2022)

Commander and poet of king Diiriye Guure

Algerian politician (1938–1993)

Syrian intelligence officer and politician (1942–2005)

Kazakh diplomat

Iraqi secret police (1947–2013)

Algerian minister (1937-2020)

Kazakhstani politician

Syrian intelligence officer (1956–2015)

Moroccan politician (1938-2007)

Algerian politician (1926-1980)

Kazakh intelligence officer

Head of the Belarusian SSR KGB (1900–1955)

British Army general (1865-1942)

former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence service

Iraqi intelligence official (born 1950)

Righteous Among the Nations

Head of the Algerian secret service

Syrian terrorist

deputy Prime Minister of Romania (1989–1990)

US Army general

Syrian military officer, military intelligence head

Belgian intelligence agent

Turkish statesperson (born 1942)

head of Russian Foreign Intelligence

head of Russia's principal security agency