Cold War secret police organisations

Definition
A secret police force is an covert organisation that illegally enforces extra-judicial laws or uses laws which require them to remove inalienable human rights for repressive reasons, like killing a rival party's voters during an election and the assassinating dissidents.

It dose not cover regular police on the beat, traffic cops, the counter-narcotics beauro, undercover detective work, homeland security forces, inland revenue staff, military police, secret overseas agents, customs and excise staff, saboteurs, agent-provocateurs, spies and/or intelligence agency's work.

The organisations

 * 1) Soviet Union: Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), then State Political Directorate (GPU), then Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), then People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), then Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB), then People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB), then Ministry for State Security (MGB) and finally the Committee for State Security (KGB) Main Intelligence Directorate- Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye (GRU).
 * 2) USA- The House Committee on Un-American Activities and it's affiliates implanted into the CIA and FBI.
 * 3) Paraguay- Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos (La Técnica) a Paraguayan intelligence body.
 * 4) Socialist People's Republic of Albania- Directorate of State Security (Sigurimi)
 * 5) People's Republic of Bulgaria- Committee for State Security (DS)
 * 6) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic- State Security (StB)
 * 7) German Democratic Republic- Ministry for State Security (Stasi)
 * 8) Hungarian People's Republic- Államvédelmi Hatóság or (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority)
 * 9) People's Republic of Poland- Ministry of Public Security (MBP) and Security Service (SB)
 * 10) Socialist Republic of Romania- Department of State Security (Securitate)
 * 11) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia- Department of National Security (OZNA) and Department of State Security (UDBA)
 * 12) Democratic Republic of Afghanistan- State Intelligence Agency (KHAD)
 * 13) Peoples' Republic of China- Red Chinese Secret Police
 * 14) USA- Mississippi Sovereignty Commission (an agency of the State of Mississippi)
 * 15) N. Vietnam/Vietnam- Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security.
 * 16) North Korea- State Security Department (Gukga anjeon bowibu)
 * 17) Syria- Air Force Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya), General Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Amm), Military Intelligence Directorate (Shu'bat al-Mukhabarat al-'Askariyya) and the Political Security Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi)
 * 18) Cuba- Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (BRCA) (Batista government) and Department of State Security and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) (Castro regime).
 * 19) Congo (Brazzaville)- General Directorate for State Security
 * 20) Taiwan- KMT Chinese Secret Police
 * 21) S. Korea- National Intelligence Service (NIS), Korea Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) and Agency for National Security Planning (ANSP)
 * 22) S. Vietnam- The Personalist Labour Revolutionary Party's illegal ad-hock bands of heavies and hired thugs.
 * 23) Mozambique- National Service of Popular Security (SNASP)
 * 24) Nicaragua- Dirección General de Seguridad del Estado (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)
 * 25) Angola- Direcção de Informação e Segurança de Angola (DISA) (Directorate of Information and Security of Angola)
 * 26) Malaysia- Malaysian Special Branch.
 * 27) Peru- National Intelligence Service (Peru).
 * 28) Portugal- International and State Defence Police and later General Security Directorate.
 * 29) Argentina- Sección Especial de Represión al Comunismo (SERC) (Special Section for the Repression of Communism) and División de Información Política Antidemocrática (DIPA) (Political Anti-democratic Information Division)
 * 30) Chile-Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Intelligence Directorate) and Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) (National Information Centre)
 * 31) Brazil- Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna (DOI-CODI) (Internal Operations Department-Centre for Internal Defence Operations)
 * 32) Haiti- Tonton Macoute (Special Operations Unit)
 * 33) Iran- Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security)
 * 34) Iraq- Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Mukhabarat) (Iraqi Intelligence Service)-
 * 35) Egypt- State Security Investigations Service (Mabahith Amn al-Dawla al-'Ulya)
 * 36) Israel- Mossad ("the Institute"),
 * 37) South Africa- Bureau of State Security (BOSS)
 * 38) Cambodia- Santebal - (Khmer Rouge period)
 * 39) Zaire- Centre Nationale de Documentation (CND) (National Documentation Center), then Agence Nationale de Documentation (AND) (National Documentation Agency) and the Service National d'Intelligence et de Protection (SNIP) (National Service for Intelligence and Protection).
 * 40) Bulgaria-Komitet za dǎržavna sigurnost (CSS)
 * 41) A Bulgarian umbrella assassination a Bulgarian secret police mode of assassination.

Also see

 * 1) Secret police
 * 2) Gulags
 * 3) Closed Soviet locations
 * 4) Cold War secret police organisations
 * 5) Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye (GRU)
 * 6) Gulags
 * 7) House Committee on Un-American Activities
 * 8) KGB Chita Jet Belt
 * 9) Soviet Nomenklatura
 * 10) Soviet Social Apparatus
 * 11) Stalin's purges
 * 12) Államvédelmi Hatóság or (ÁVH)
 * 13) Workers' Militia

Links

 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_secret_police_organizations
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secret_police_organizations
 * 3) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1442004/Im-proud-says-doctor-who-spied-for-secret-police.html
 * 4) http://www.academia.edu/9775607/Stasi_Aid_and_the_Modernization_of_the_Vietnamese_Secret_Police
 * 5) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/stasi-aid-and-the-modernization-the-vietnamese-secret-police
 * 6) http://www.cjimagazine.com/archives/cji619c.html?id=62
 * 7) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/stasi-aid-and-the-modernization-the-vietnamese-secret-police
 * 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE
 * 9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Bureau_of_State_Security
 * 10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Investigations_Service
 * 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Investigations_Service
 * 12) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOI-CODI
 * 13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direcci%C3%B3n_de_Inteligencia_Nacional
 * 14) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central_Nacional_de_Informaciones&redirect=no
 * 15) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
 * 16) http://www.skolnicksreport.org/chinesesp.html