Administration for Security and Counterintelligence
Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање (УБК) Uprava za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje (UBK) Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim (ASK) | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1995 |
Preceding agencies | |
Dissolved | 2019 |
Jurisdiction | World |
Headquarters | Skopje, North Macedonia |
Employees | Classified |
Annual budget | Classified |
Ministers responsible | |
Website | www.mvr.gov.mk |
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање, Albanian: Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. Its headquarters are located in Skopje, and the agency is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence.
This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency
Directors
# | Portrait | Name | Mandate commenced on | Mandate finished on | Political Party |
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Before 1991 see: UDBA State Security Administration (Macedonian: Служба за Државна Безбедност) | |||||
1 | Slobodan Bogoevski | 1991 | 1995 | SDSM | |
Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Дирекција за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | |||||
2 | Dobri Veličkovski | 1995 | 1998 | SDSM | |
3 | Zoran Veruševski | 1998 | 1998 | none | |
4 | Bojan Bojanovski | 1998 | 2001 | Democratic Alternative | |
5 | Goran Mitevski | 2001 | 2002 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
6 | Nikola Spasovski | 2002 | 2003 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
7 | Siljan Avramovski | 2003 | 2004 | SDSM | |
Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | |||||
8 | Mile Zečević | 2004 | 2006 | SDSM | |
9 | Sašo Mijalkov | 2006 | 2015 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
10 | Ljupčo Andonovski | 2015 | 2016 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
11 | Vladimir Atanasovski | 2016 | 2017 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
12 | Goran Nikolovski | 2017 | 2019 | none |
See also
- North Macedonia
- Intelligence Agency (Civilian Agency)
- Military Service for Security and Intelligence-G2 (Military Agency)