List Of Secret Police Organizations

Basic Information

This is a list of Secret Police agencies.

Current Secret Police Organizations:

• Belarus
  • Presidential Guard
  • State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus
• Brazil
  • Agência Brasileira de inteligência (ABIN) (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
• Cameroon
  • Brigade Mixte Mobile (BMM) (Mixed Mobile Brigade)
• Chad
  • Agence nationale de sécurité (ANS) (National Security Agency)
• People's Republic of China
  • Guojia Anquan Bu (Guoanbu) (Ministry of State Security)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Détection Militaire des Activités Anti-Patrie (DEMIAP) (Military Detection of Anti-Fatherland Activities)
• Republic of the Congo
  • Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)
• Côte d'Ivoire
  • Presidential Investigations Unit
• Djibouti
  • Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
  • Service de Documentation et de Sécurité (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service)
• Ethiopia
  • Central Revolutionary Investigation Department (CRID)
• Gambia
  • National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
• Ghana
  • Bureau of National Investigations (BNI)
  • SPD (Ghana) State Police Department (SPD)
• Iran
  • Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar (VEVAK) (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)
  • Sepah Pasdaran Enghaleb Islam-e (Sepah or Pasdaran) (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps)
• Iraq
  • Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma
• Maldives
  • National Security Service (NSS)
• Nigeria
  • State Security Service (SSS)
  • Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA)
• North Korea
  • State Safety and Security Agency
• South Korea
  • Korean National Police Agency
• Russian Federation
  • Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) (Federal Security Service)
• Turkmenistan
  • Ministry of State Security
• Uganda
  • Internal Security Organisation
• Ukraine
  • Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU) (Security Service of Ukraine)
• Zimbabwe
  • Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)

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Historical Secret Police Organizations:

• 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)
• Central African Republic
  • Force spéciale de défense des institutions républicaines (FORSIDIR)
  • Unité de sécurité présidentielle (USP)
  • Office central de répression du banditisme (OCRB)
• 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
  • Service d'Information (SD) (French: Information Service)
• 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
  • Kempeitai
  • Tokkeitai
  • Tokko
• 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)
• 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)
• Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Taiwan Garrison Command
• Roman Empire
  • Agentes in rebus
  • 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
• 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)
• Venezuela
  • Dirección de Inteligencia Militar (DIM)
  • Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (DISIP)
• 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

Sources

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia list of Secret Police

2. Wikipedia list of historical Secret Police

Game and Story Use

• See Secret Police, Government Conspiracy, and Espionage Genre.