The Government insists that its measures will strengthen oversight of surveillance and improve the transparency governing the intelligence services' activities.
Addressing lawmakers, the deputy director of the Federal Security Service said the step was necessary because foreign intelligence services "actively use" such organizations "as a cover and they conduct independent intelligence activities".
He said that he provided such details about four of them to the officer, who was a member of the intelligence service's Hostile Activities Branch, whose mission, according to the complaint, was "to identify and neutralize opposition to Saddam Hussein's rule".
A few months previously, he had been embroiled in a wiretapping scandal involving the country's intelligence service SREL, for whose activity he was politically responsible.
"Even if Montesinos and his people leave, no laws enable any entity outside of the executive to monitor and supervise the intelligence service by looking into its activities and accounts, and so what you are left with is an untouchable power".
Pakistan's military and the ISI intelligence service have sought to restrict CIA activities by seeking lists of spies, closing intelligence cooperation centres, and restricting visas for US personnel.
Nowhere was this more prevalent than in East Germany, where for nearly 40 years the Stasi intelligence service monitored and reported on the activities of its citizens, using the information to stifle unrest.
The German domestic intelligence service has monitored the organization's activities.
Only in early 2011, after his arrest in Afghanistan, did the domestic intelligence service request a "deep investigation" into Mr. Merah's activities, according to the report.
Responsibility for security intelligence was taken away from the Mounties when a separate intelligence service was created in 1984, partly in response to previous illegal activities by the federal force.
