List of historical secret police organizations

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 In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names.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

Contents

[edit] Agencies by country

[edit] Afghanistan

[edit] Albania

[edit] Angola

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Bolivia

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

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Cameroon

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

[edit] Canada

[edit] Chad

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

[edit] Chile

[edit] China

[edit] Czechoslovakia

[edit] Germany

[edit] East Germany

[edit] El Salvador

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Haiti

[edit] Honduras

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

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Indonesia

  • Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib)

[edit] Iran

[edit] Iraq

[edit] Italy

[edit] Japan

[edit] South Korea

[edit] Malaysia

  • Special Branch

[edit] Mexico

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

[edit] Mozambique

  • National Service of Popular Security (SNASP)[1]

[edit] Nicaragua

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

[edit] Nigeria

  • Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO)

[edit] Paraguay

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

[edit] Peru

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

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Prussia

[edit] Roman Empire

[edit] Romania

[edit] Russia

[edit] Rwanda

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


[edit] Singapore

  • Special Branch

[edit] Somalia

  • National Security Service[2]

[edit] South Africa

[edit] South-West Africa

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] Uganda

  • Public Safety Unit
  • State Research Bureau

[edit] Uruguay

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

[edit] Yugoslavia

[edit] 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[3]

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Mozambique: Six Months After Independence" AliciaPatterson.org. Accessed on May 29, 2008.
  2. ^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+so0125)
  3. ^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+zr0206)