Secret Police
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:
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the Gestapo in Nazi Germany (the name is an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei, German for "secret state police")
Fascist secret police forces:
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the OVRA in fascist-ruled Italy
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the Kempeitai in imperial Japan
Communist secret police forces:
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the Stasi in East Germany
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the CHEKA in the early days of the Russian revolution
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the NKVD in Stalin's USSR
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the KGB in the erstwhile USSR
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the Securitate in communist-ruled Romania
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the Sigurimi in communist-ruled Albania
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the StB in communist-ruled Czechoslovakia
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the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (UB) and then Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB) in the communist-ruled Poland
Middle-eastern secret police forces:
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the SAVAK in pre-revolutionary Iran
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the VEVAK in Iran today
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the Mukhabarat in Iraq under Saddam Hussein
North American secret police forces:
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The FBI (under the administration of J. Edgar Hoover)
Latin American secret police forces:
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The DINA under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship of Chile
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to be done: see also: Operation Condor
Caribbean secret police forces:
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Ton Ton Macoute in Haiti under Francois Duvalier, better known as Papa Doc
African secret police forces:
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to be done?
Fictional Examples of Secret Police Forces
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Section 31 from Star Trek - Federation
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Tal Shiar from Star Trek - Romulan secret police
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Obsidian Order from Star Trek - Cardassian secret police
See Also
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