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.
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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:
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
- to be done: People's Republic of China, North Korea, Vietnam?
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
[[es:Polic�a secreta]]
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Secret_police" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
