Federal Intelligence Service (BND) (in German: Bundesnachrichtendienst): foreign and military intelligence Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) (German: Militärischer Abschirmdienst): (defensive) counterintelligence within the Bundeswehr Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) (German: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz): national domestic intelligence State Offices for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) (German: Landesbehörden für Verfassungsschutz): domestic intelligence for the 16 subnational states