No, SPECTRE is a fictional terrorist organization, and was featured in a number of James Bond books and films.
If it were a real agency and they want you I'm sure they'll contact you.
I would think that it is self explanatory. A spy agency is an agency that is engaged in spying.
SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is perhaps one of the best known spy-novel organizations.
A spy gets paid by the people or agency that wants the information the spy is looking for. If it's a government agency, then the tax payers are paying the spy's salary. If it is an industrial spy looking for a company's secrets, then the corporation that hired the spy will pay the bill.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The world's largest spy agency is the CIA which which gathers intelligence information about foreign governments.
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The acronym CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency (US spy agency).
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947.
Apart from ASIO, probably. It would not be much of a spy agency if everybody knew about it.
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