List of historical secret police organizations

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 In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names.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.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

*Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD)

Albania

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

Angola

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

Argentina

*Sociedad Popular Restauradora ("Mazorca")
*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)

Bolivia

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

Brazil

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

Cameroon

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

Canada

*RCMP Security Service

Chad

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

Chile

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

China

*Jinyi Wei (Ming Dynasty)

Cuba

*Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (Batista government)

Czechoslovakia

*Státní bezpečnost / Štátna bezpečnosť (StB / ŠtB) (State Security)

Germany

*Preußische Geheimpolizei (Prussian Secret Police)
*Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police)

East Germany

*Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security)

El Salvador

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

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)

Haiti

*Volontaires de la sécurité nationale (VSN or Tonton Macoutes) (National Security Volunteers)

Honduras

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

Hungary

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

Indonesia

*Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib)

Iran

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

Iraq

* Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Mukhabarat)

Italy

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

Japan

*Tokko
*Kempeitai

South Korea

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

Malaysia

*Special Branch

Mexico

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

Mozambique

*National Service of Popular Security (SNASP) [ [http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Wright/Wright16/Wright16.html "Mozambique: Six Months After Independence"] AliciaPatterson.org. Accessed on May 29, 2008.]

Nicaragua

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

Nigeria

*Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO)

Paraguay

*División Técnica de Represión del Comunismo (Technical Division for the Repression of Communism)
*Departamento de Investigaciones de la Policía (DIPC) (Police Investigations Department)

Peru

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

Poland

*Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB)

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)

Prussia

*Preußische Geheimpolizei (Prussian Secret Police)

Roman Empire

*Frumentarii

Romania

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

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

Rwanda

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

Singapore

*Special Branch

Somalia

*National Security Service [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+so0125)]

South Africa

*Bureau of State Security (BOSS)

South-West Africa

*Koevoet (Crowbar)

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)

Uganda

*Public Safety Unit
*State Research Bureau

Uruguay

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

Yugoslavia

*Uprava Državne Bezbednosti (UDBA)

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

See also

*List of fictional secret police organizations
*List of secret police organizations
*Police
*Secret police

Notes