Administration for Security and Counterintelligence

The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, usually called by its Macedonian acronym UBK, was the national police domestic intelligence and security service of the Republic of North Macedonia. Its headquarters were in Skopje and it operated under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The service traces its roots to the Department for People's Protection, known as OZNA, which was the official security agency of the socialist republic within Yugoslavia. Under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence it was officially founded in 1995. It was later succeeded by the National Security Agency, so it is recorded here as a defunct body, and it is a reference point for how internal security services were organised in the post Yugoslav states.