The role and functions of the CIA are roughly equivalent to those of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (the SIS or MI6), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) (SVR), the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the French foreign intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) and Israel's Mossad. While the preceding agencies both collect and analyze information, some like the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research are purely analytical agencies.[citation needed] COUNT 5
QSN1 What is the UK's equivalent to the CIA? ANS1 Secret Intelligence Service QSN2 What does ASIS stand for? ANS2 Australian Secret Intelligence Service QSN3 What is the name of Israel's intelligence agency? ANS3 Mossad QSN4 What is the acronym for India's Research and Analysis Wing? ANS4 RAW QSN5 What is the acronym for French's intelligence service? ANS5 DGSE