Administration for Security and Counterintelligence

The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање, romanized: Uprava za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje, Albanian: Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia.^[2] Its headquarters were located in Skopje, and the agency was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.^[3]

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
Formed	1995[1]
Preceding agencies	State Security Administration UDBA
Dissolved	2019
Jurisdiction	World
Headquarters	Skopje, North Macedonia
Employees	Classified
Annual budget	Classified
Ministers responsible	Oliver Spasovski
Website	www.mvr.gov.mk

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.^[4] Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence.^[4]

This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency.^[5]

Directors

#	Portrait	Name	Mandate commenced on	Mandate finished on	Political Party
Before 1991 see: UDBA State Security Administration (Macedonian: Служба за Државна Безбедност)
1		Slobodan Bogoevski[6]	1991	1995	SDSM[7]
Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Дирекција за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање)
2		Dobri Veličkovski[8][9]	1995	1998	SDSM[7]
3		Zoran Veruševski[10][11]	1998	1998	none
4		Bojan Bojanovski[12]	1998	2001	Democratic Alternative[7]
5		Goran Mitevski[13]	2001	2002	VMRO-DPMNE[7]
6		Nikola Spasovski[14][15]	2002	2003	VMRO-DPMNE[7]
7		Siljan Avramovski	2003	2004	SDSM[7]
Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање)
8		Mile Zečević	2004	2006	SDSM[7]
9		Sašo Mijalkov	2006	2015	VMRO-DPMNE[7]
10		Ljupčo Andonovski	2015	2016	VMRO-DPMNE
11		Vladimir Atanasovski	2016	2017	VMRO-DPMNE
12		Goran Nikolovski	2017	2019	none [16]

See also

• North Macedonia
• Intelligence Agency (Civilian Agency)
• Military Service for Security and Intelligence-G2 (Military Agency)