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This list needed CIA and surely the FBI. Note that through the 'patriot act' the CIA can now spy domestic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by THEODICEAN (talk • contribs) 02:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your addition; both are included on List of secret police organizations. This one is for obsolete secret police. bobanny 21:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PUT THE FBI BACK ON THIS LIST! They were removed from the list of current secret police organizations List of secret police organizations -- what is with this Americentric bias? You people don't want to list agencies from the USA because you think America couldn't possibly spy on its own people? Wake up.--174.102.201.14 (talk) 09:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added COINTELPRO which is certainly historical, whether or not the FBI continues such operations under other names/administrative structures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.109.47.217 (talk) 23:49, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mississippi Sovereignty Commission[edit]

This state agency was as nasty as some of the other secret police organizations on the list. It existed to protect racial segregation from opposition both from inside and outside the state. Although its activities were essentially limited to Mississippi, it had many characteristics of a secret police -- surveillance of political opponents, knowing aid in political violence (including most infamously the murders of civil rights workers), participation in miscarriage of justice, and attempts to control media. It served basically a single-Party political system in which many people were deprived of any right to participation in politics due to ethnic origin.

No state of the United States of America ever had a quasi-police agency with so pervasive, unaccountable, and secretive a role in state politics.

Disbanded in 1977, it fits the other qualification of 'historical'. Pbrower2a (talk) 05:19, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt it is correct that "No state of the United States of America ever had a quasi-police agency with so pervasive, unaccountable, and secretive a role in state politics". More importantly there are many federal organisations that are or were more "pervasive, unaccountable, and secretive a role in politics" which should have been included, but have not.

List them by year instead of country.[edit]

I'm trying to figure out what the first secret police agency ever was. 184.57.129.13 (talk) 09:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Need to be consistent to current organisations[edit]

The list of current secret police organisations has been limited, in my view artificially, to include only organisations in dictatorships. If the same highly arbitrary criteria is to be used for historical secret police organisations, then a number of organisations need to be removed. These would include the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the South African Bureau of State Security. Neither Mississippi or South Africa could be called dictatorships.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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