List of historical secret police organizations

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This is a list of historical secret police organizations. In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names. Few still exist under the same name as legitimate police forces.

[edit] Agencies by country

[edit] Afghanistan

Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD) (Government Intelligence Service)

[edit] Albania

Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (Sigurimi) (Directorate of State Security)

[edit] Angola

Direcção de Informação e Segurança de Angola (DISA) (Directorate of Information and Security of Angola)

[edit] Argentina

Sección Especial de Represión al Comunismo (SERC) (Special Section for the Repression of Communism)
División de Información Política Antidemocrática (DIPA) (Political Anti-democratic Information Division)

[edit] Bolivia

Servicio Especial de Seguridad (SES) (Special Security Service)

[edit] Brazil

Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna (DOI-CODI) (Internal Operations Department-Centre for Internal Defence Operations)

[edit] Cambodia

Santebal - secret police during the Khmer Rouge period

[edit] Cameroon

Centre National d'Étude et de Recherche (National Centre for Study and Research)

[edit] Central African Republic

Force spéciale de défense des institutions républicaines (FORSIDIR) (The Presidential Lifeguard)
Unité de sécurité présidentielle (USP) (Presidential Security Organisation - acted as the main secret organisation before and after FORSIDIR)
Office central de répression du banditisme (OCRB) (Central Office of Banditry Repression)

[edit] Chad

Direction de la Documentation et de la Sécurité (DDS) (Directorate of Documentation and Security)

[edit] Chile

Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) (National Intelligence Directorate)
Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Centre)

[edit] Dominican Republic

Servicio Inteligencia Militar (SIM) - Military Intelligence Service under Rafael Trujillo

[edit] Egypt

State Security Investigations Service (Mabahith Amn al-Dawla al-'Ulya)

[edit] Germany

Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police) - active in Nazi Germany
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security) - East Germany organisation active during the Cold War era

[edit] Greece

Greek Military Police

[edit] Guatemala

Policía Judicial (Judicial Police)
Policía Militar Ambulate (PMA) (Mobile Military Police)
Guardia de Hacienda (Palace Guard)
Ejército Secreto Anti-Comunista (ESAC) (Secret Anti-Communist Army)
Centro de Servicios Especiales de la Presidencia (Centre for Special Presidential Services)

[edit] Haiti

Service d'Information (SD) (Information Service)^[1]
Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale (MVSN) (Militia of National Security Volunteers, better known as the Tonton Macoutes)

[edit] Honduras

Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department)

[edit] Hungary

Államvédelmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department)
Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority)

[edit] Indonesia

Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib) (Security and Order Restoration Command)

[edit] Iran

Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security)

[edit] Iraq

Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Mukhabarat) (Iraqi Intelligence Service)

[edit] Italy

Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism)

[edit] Japan

Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (Tokko) (Special Higher Police)

[edit] South Korea

Korea Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)
Agency for National Security Planning (ANSP)

[edit] Malaysia

Special Branch

[edit] Mexico

División de Investigaciones para la Prevención de la Delincuencia (DIPD) (Investigation Division for the Prevention of Delinquency)

[edit] Mozambique

National Service of Popular Security (SNASP)^[2]

[edit] Nicaragua

Dirección General de Seguridad del Estado (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)

[edit] Nigeria

Nigerian Security Organization (NSO)

[edit] Paraguay

Pyraguës (Between 1814 to 1840, nicknamed Hairy Feet by civilians)
División Técnica de Represión del Comunismo (Technical Division for the Repression of Communism)
Departamento de Investigaciones de la Policía (DIPC) (Police Investigations Department)

[edit] Peru

Seguridad del Estado (State Security)
División Contra el Terrorismo (Anti-Terrorism Division)

[edit] Philippines

Military Intelligence and Security Group under the Ferdinand Marcos

[edit] Poland

Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs)

[edit] Portugal

Policia de Vigilância e de Defesa do Estado (PVDE) (Vigilance and State Defence Police)
Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE) (International and State Defence Police)
Direcção Geral de Segurança (DGS) (Directorate-General of Security)

[edit] Prussia

Preußische Geheimpolizei (Prussian Secret Police)

[edit] Republic of China (Taiwan)

Taiwan Garrison Command

[edit] Roman Empire

[edit] Romania

Departamentul Securităţii statului (Securitate) (Department of State Security)

[edit] Russia

Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
Special Corps of Gendarmes
Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or slang Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866-1917)
Oprichniki (1565-1573) under Ivan the Terrible

[edit] Rwanda

Service Central de Renseignements (SCR) (Central Information Service)

[edit] El Salvador

Organización Democrática Nacionalista (ORDEN) (Nationalist Democratic Organization)
Frente Democrático Nacionalista (FDN) (Nationalist Democratic Front)

[edit] Singapore

Special Branch

[edit] Somalia

National Security Service^[3]
Hangash (Military Intelligence Unit)

[edit] South Africa

Bureau of State Security (BOSS)

[edit] South-West Africa

Koevoet (Crowbar) (officially known as South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit)

[edit] Soviet Union

Cheka (1917-1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)
Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (GPU) (1922-1923) (State Political Directorate)
Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU) (1923–1934) (Joint State Political Directorate)
Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del (NKVD) (1934–1946) (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD) (1946–1954) (Ministry for Internal Affairs)
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (MGB) (1943–1953) (Ministry for State Security)
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) (1954–1991) (Committee for State Security)

[edit] Uganda

[edit] Uruguay

Organismo Coordinador de Actividades Anti-Subversivas (Anti-Subversive Activities Co-ordination Organization)

[edit] Venezuela

Dirección de Inteligencia Militar (DIM) (Military Intelligence Directorate)
Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (DISIP) (Bolivarian Intelligence Service)

[edit] Yugoslavia

Uprava Državne Bezbednosti (UDBA) (Department of State Security)

[edit] Zaire

Centre Nationale de Documentation (CND) (National Documentation Center) - 1969-early 1980s
Agence Nationale de Documentation (AND) (National Documentation Agency) - Early 1980s-August 1990
Service National d'Intelligence et de Protection (SNIP) (National Service for Intelligence and Protection) - August 1990 - May 1997^[4]

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

^ Abbott, Elizabeth (1988). Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers. Simon & Schuster. p. 116 ISBN 0-671-68620-8
^ "Mozambique: Six Months After Independence" AliciaPatterson.org. Accessed on May 29, 2008.
^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+so0125)
^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+zr0206)

[0] Abbott, Elizabeth (1988). Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers. Simon & Schuster. p. 116 ISBN 0-671-68620-8

[1] "Mozambique: Six Months After Independence" AliciaPatterson.org. Accessed on May 29, 2008.

[2] ttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+so0125)

[3] ttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+zr0206)

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