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Secret police

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A secret police force is a police organization that operates in secret and often using terroristic methods to suppress sedition, dissent, political opposition, or as a means of enforcing a police state.

Examples of Secret Police Forces

National Socialist (Nazi) secret police forces:

• the Gestapo in Nazi Germany (the name is an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei, German for "secret state police")

Fascist secret police forces:

• the OVRA in fascist-ruled Italy

• the Kempeitai in imperial Japan

Communist secret police forces:

• the Stasi in East Germany

• the CHEKA in the early days of the Russian revolution

• the NKVD in Stalin's USSR

• the KGB in the erstwhile USSR

• the Securitate in communist-ruled Romania

• the Sigurimi in communist-ruled Albania

• the StB in communist-ruled Czechoslovakia

• the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (UB) and then Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) in the communist-ruled Poland

Middle-eastern secret police forces:

• the SAVAK in pre-revolutionary Iran

• the VEVAK in Iran today

• the Mukhabarat in Iraq under Saddam Hussein

North American secret police forces:

• The FBI (under the administration of J. Edgar Hoover)

Latin American secret police forces:

• The DINA under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship of Chile

• to be done: see also: Operation Condor

Caribbean secret police forces:

• Ton Ton Macoute in Haiti under Francois Duvalier, better known as Papa Doc

African secret police forces:

• to be done?

Fictional Examples of Secret Police Forces

• Section 31 from Star Trek - Federation

• Tal Shiar from Star Trek - Romulan secret police

• Obsidian Order from Star Trek - Cardassian secret police

See Also

• Intelligence agency

• List of intelligence agencies

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