Ministry for State Security
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Ministry for State Security or Ministry of State Security may refer to:
- Ministry for State Security (USSR), former name of the Soviet Union's secret police.
- Stasi, East Germany's secret police, officially the Ministry for State Security.
- Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China, the government agency of the People's Republic of China
- Ministry of State Security (Turkmenistan), ministry of Turkmenistan under President Niyazov
[edit] Similar sounding agencies
- Ministry of Public Security
- Directorate of State Security, agency of the Communist Albania under Enver Hoxha
- Bureau of State Security (BOSS), agency of apartheid South Africa.
- Department of Homeland Security, department of the United States
- See also: Department of Public Safety
- Committee for State Security, department of Socialist Bulgaria
- KGB, secrete agency of the Soviet Union