page_title: Military Counterintelligence Service (Germany)
hierarchical_section_title: Military Counterintelligence Service (Germany)
context_page_description: The Military Counterintelligence Service is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany that is responsible for military counterintelligence. The other two are the Bundesnachrichtendienst, which is the foreign intelligence agency, and the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz which is the domestic civilian intelligence agency.
  The headquarters of the MAD are in Cologne, with twelve groups located in cities throughout Germany. These MAD groups are collectively known to be the Militärischer Abschirmdienst. The agency has about 1,300 military and civilian employees and in 2018 the budget was 95,627,540 €.
  Its full formal name is Bundesamt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst; formerly it was formally named Amt für die Sicherheit der Bundeswehr.
context_section_description: The Military Counterintelligence Service (German: Militärischer Abschirmdienst; MAD) is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany that is responsible for military counterintelligence. The other two are the Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service, BND), which is the foreign intelligence agency, and the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, BfV) which is the domestic civilian intelligence agency.
  The headquarters of the MAD are in Cologne, with twelve groups located in cities throughout Germany. These MAD groups are collectively known to be the Militärischer Abschirmdienst. The agency has about 1,300 military and civilian employees and in 2018 the budget was 95,627,540 €.
  Its full formal name is Bundesamt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst; formerly it was formally named Amt für die Sicherheit der Bundeswehr.
caption: Logo of the MAD