Secret police

A secret police force is a police organization that acts in secret, either to suppress sedition or terrorism or as a means of enforcing a police state.

Examples of secret police forces:

Fascist secret police forces:

• the Gestapo in Nazi Germany

Communist secret police forces:

• the Stasi in East Germany
• the CHEKA in the early days of the Russian revolution
• 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 UB and then SB in the communist-ruled Poland
• to be done: China, North Korea, Vietnam?

Middle-eastern secrect police forces:

• the Savak[?] in pre-revolutionary Iran

Latin-American secret police forces:

• to be done: see also: Operation Condor

African secret police forces:

• to be done

Fictional:

• Section 31 from Star Trek - Federation
• Tal Shiar from Star Trek - Romulan secret police

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