List of secret police organizations explained
This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages.
In this list, reputable sources, with relevant quotes, assert that the organizations in this list are secret police.
Agencies by country
Country | Organisation(s) |
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| State Security Service (Azerbaijani: Dövlət Təhlükəsizlik Xidməti)[1] [2] |
| National Security Agency (Arabic: جهاز الأمن الوطني)[3] |
| State Security Committee (Belarusian: Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі, КДБ|Kamitet dziaržawnaj biaspeki, KDB, Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ|Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, KGB)[4] |
| Internal Security Department[5] [6] |
| Ministry of State Security [7] |
| General Intelligence Directorate (GID) (Arabic: جهاز المخابرات العامة)[8] [9] [10] Homeland Security (قطاع الأمن الوطني)[11] [12] |
| Ministry of Intelligence (Formerly, known as SAVAMA for a short period of time after the Iranian Revolution) (Persian: وِزارَتِ اِطّلاعات جُمهوریِ اِسلامیِ ایران, Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran)[13] [14] [15] [16] |
| General Intelligence Directorate (GID) (Arabic: دائرة المخابرات العامة)[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] |
| National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KNB) (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы Ұлттық Қауіпсіздік Комитеті|Qazaqstan Respublikasy Ūlttyq Qauıpsızdık Komitetı, Russian: Комитет Национальной Безопасности Республики Казахстан|links=no|translit=Komitet Natsional'noy Bezopasnosti Respubliki Kazakhstan)[22] [23] |
| State Security Service[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] |
| Ministry of State Security (North Korea) [30] [31] [32] |
| Federal Security Service (FSB) (Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ)|Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii|links=no)[33] |
| General Investigation Directorate (Mabahith) (Arabic: المباحث العامة, al-Mabāḥiṯ al-ʿĀmmah) [34] [35] |
| National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) (Arabic: جهاز الأمن والمخابرات الوطني السوداني, Jihaaz Al Amn Al Watani Wal Mukhaabaraat)[36] [37] |
| Air Force Intelligence Directorate (Arabic: إدارة المخابرات الجوية, Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya)[38] [39] [40] [41] [42] General Intelligence Directorate (Arabic: إدارة المخابرات العامة, Idarat al-Amn al-Amm)[43] Military Intelligence Directorate (Arabic: شعبة المخابرات العسكرية, Shu'bat al-Mukhabarat al-'Askariyya) Political Security Directorate (Arabic: إدارة الأمن السياسي, Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi) |
| State Committee of National Security[44] |
| Ministry for National Security (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Milli howpsuzlyk ministrilgi)[45] |
| Security Service (SBU) (Ukrainian: Служба безпеки України (СБУ)|Sluzhba bezleky Ukrayiny (SBU)[46] |
| National Security Service (SNB) (Uzbek: Milliy Xavfsizlik Xizmati|italics=yes, Russian: Служба национальной безопасности|Sluzhba natsional'noy bezopasnosti)[47] |
| Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) (Spanish; Castilian: Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional)[48] |
| Central Intelligence Organisation[49] | |
See also
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Notes and References
- News: Azerbaijan: Four state agencies raid religious communities . 15 March 2022 . Forum 18 . Corley . Felix . 18 December 2017.
- News: Corley . Felix . AZERBAIJAN: Imam's pre-trial imprisonment extended in treason case . 15 March 2022 . Forum 18 . 16 February 2022.
- News: Bahrain security forces accused of deliberately recruiting foreign nationals. The Guardian. February 17, 2011. February 21, 2015. Black. Ian. The secret police – the Bahrain national security agency, known in Arabic as the Mukhabarat....
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- Book: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices For 1999 - Volume 1 . April 2000 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 9780160606694 . 978–984 . 15 March 2022.
- News: Wolfsan . Johnny . Brunei . 15 March 2022 . New Internationalist . 2 March 2008 . The dreaded Internal Security Department can pick up anyone suspected of anti-Government activities and keep them in custody without trial as long as is deemed desirable..
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- News: Mamluks and maliks . May 14, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . for the mukhabarat, the secret police, to eavesdrop on dissenters by hacking into their telephones and turning them into bugging devices..
- News: The Arab winter . January 9, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . The Mukhabarat (secret police) intervened in 2015’s elections to ensure supine legislative loyalty to the president..
- News: Special Report: Bedouins drawn into Egypt's Islamist fight leftright 5/5leftright . Hassan . Ahmed Mohamed . July 15, 2015 . . June 16, 2017 . a game being played by the Mukhabarat (Egyptian secret police).
- News: Egypt restores feared secret police units . Kingsley . Patrick . July 29, 2013 . . June 16, 2017 . Egypt restores feared secret police units... Egypt's state security investigations service, Mabahith Amn ad-Dawla, a wing of the police force under President Mubarak, and a symbol of police oppression, was supposedly closed in March 2011...The only thing that happened was that they changed the name.
- News: 6 Key Questions on Egypt's Escalating Violence . Cambanis . Thanassis . November 22, 2011 . . June 16, 2017 . including the secret police, which were simply renamed "homeland security" instead of "state security.".
- News: Sexual Politics in Iran. PBS Frontline. Afary. Janet. May 26, 2009. February 21, 2015. ...they worked with the secret police SAVAMA and were instrumental in eliminating dissident groups.
- News: Ministry of Intelligence and Security. 29 March 2017.
- News: Iran Offers Rare Glimpse Into Secret Intelligence Service. The Associated Press. October 16, 2014. March 29, 2017. "In a first, Iran provided public information about the structure of its secret services in an Intelligence Ministry magazine published for the 30th anniversary of the creation of the ministry. According to the magazine, entitled "30 years of Silent Devotion," Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi heads a coordination council overseeing 16 different agencies. The Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, separately operates two other intelligence agencies.".
- News: Ganji identified Fallahian as the 'master key' in chain murders. https://web.archive.org/web/20130428020518/http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles_2000/dec_2000/ganji_named_fallahian_11200.htm. 28 April 2013 . Iran Press Service.
- News: Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World . MacFarquhar . Neil . November 14, 2005 . . June 16, 2017 . The secret police, or mukhabarat in Arabic, is one of the most powerful and ubiquitous forces in the Arab world. Jordan's network had surreptitiously videotaped his reading..
- News: DiCaprio film glamorizes Jordan's feared spy agency . Belden . Willow . October 10, 2008 . . June 16, 2017 . tells the story of a fictional collaboration between the CIA and Jordan's secret police...international observers say the real GID is a far cry from its depiction in art..
- News: Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis . Black . Ian . November 27, 2014 . . June 16, 2017 . fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.
- In the Middle East, Arabic Wikipedia Is A Flashpoint - And A Beacon . Su . Alice . February 12, 2014 . . June 16, 2017 . The 36-year-old Jordanian traveled throughout the region often, but this was the first time that mukhabarat, secret police.
- News: Jordan's King Finds Fault With Everyone Concerned . Kirkpatrick . David D. . March 18, 2013 . . June 16, 2017 . “Institutions I had trusted were just not on board,” he said, naming as an example the mukhabarat, or secret police.
- News: Suicide bomber attacks Kazakh secret police HQ. May 17, 2011. December 5, 2015. Orange, Richard. The Daily Telegraph. Kazakhstan's secret police headquarters have been targeted in a suicide attack in one of the country's biggest cities....the KNB, Kazakhstan's successor to the KGB.
- News: Ex-Kazakhstan official was not murdered in Austrian jail, judge rules . MacAskill . Ewen . December 17, 2015 . . June 16, 2017 . Harding . Luke . Aliyev, 52, a former ambassador to Austria, intelligence officer, deputy foreign minister and banker, who had expressed fear that his life was in danger from Kazakhstan’s KNB secret police.
- News: Nigerian terrorist trained in the UK. 18 May 2014. The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). News Corp Australia. 44. Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services….
- News: Nigeria arrests 'terrorists backed by Iran'. Adigun. Bashir. 21 February 2013. Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 22. Dublin. Nigeria's secret police… …the State Security Service, responsible for domestic spying in Africa's most populous nation….
- News: Wike moves to stop police's search of his Abuja residence . Onochie . Bridget Chiedu . June 6, 2017 . . June 16, 2017 . In the suit filed by his counsel, Sylva Ogwemoh (SAN), the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) and the Department of State Security Service (DSS) were listed as defendants. Wike, in the originating summon, is asking Justice Ahmed Mohammed for an injunction restraining the police, anti-graft agency and the secret police from embarking on the exercise..
- News: Nigerian Secret Police Detain Journalists . November 1, 2009 . . June 16, 2017 . The State Security Service, Nigeria's secret police.
- News: AP Exclusive: Nigeria secret police details leaked . Adigun . Bashir . August 30, 2012 . . June 16, 2017 . . Gambrell . Jon . Nigeria secret police details leaked...The leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of Nigeria's State Security Service.
- News: Nigeria: Secret Police Arrest Five Linked To ISIS Sleeper Cells In Kano . Gaffey . Connor . June 10, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . The SSS did not disclose the identities of the suspects. The secret police previously arrested an “ISIS recruiter” named Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa in Kano in February.
- News: UN brands Kim new Hitler Report bares N. Korea hell crimes. Soltis. Andy. 18 February 2014. The New York Post. News Corp. 8. The security agent came in and this agent of the Bowibu [secret police]….
- Guo. Jerry. 4 October 2010. The Regent Behind the Son. Newsweek (International Edition). 156. 14. 7. 0163-7053. …Jang officially controls the internal security forces, including the secret police..
- News: South Korea's Top Spies Give New Evidence in Plot to Kill Kim Jong-nam . Sang-Hun . Cheong . February 27, 2017 . . June 17, 2017 . agents from North Korea’s Ministry of State Security, the country’s secret police.
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- News: Lebedev targets Russian secret police for damages . Clover . Charles . September 13, 2011 . . June 17, 2017 . Russia’s secret police have long been immune to the law that they supposedly uphold...The lawsuit is the first of its kind in Russia to target the FSB, according to Mr Lebedev.
- News: Wikileaks Release: Hacking Team Says It Sold Spyware To FSB, Russia's Secret Police . Fox-Brewster . Thomas . July 9, 2015 . . June 17, 2017 . Amongst the files seen by FORBES so far are emails detailing Hacking Team’s sales to Russia’s secret police, the FSB..
- News: Edward Snowden Walked Right Into A Bizarre Alliance Between Wikileaks And Russia . Kelley . Michael B . August 3, 2013 . . June 17, 2017 . An official at the Center for Information Security of the FSB, Russia’s secret police.
- WikiLeaks: Is Russia the Next Target? . Shuster . Simon . November 1, 2010 . . June 17, 2017 . the FSB, Russia's secret police, gave a warning to WikiLeaks that showed none of the tact of the U.S. reply to the Iraq revelations..
- News: Russian Security Service, FSB, 'May Have Been Involved' In Whistleblower, Alexander Perepilichny's Death . Snowdon . Kathryn . September 21, 2015 . . June 17, 2017 . FSB, ‘May Have Been Involved’ In Whistleblower, Alexander Perepilichny’s Death...Russian secret police “may well be involved” in the death of a whistleblower living in Britain, an inquest was told on Monday..
- News: Russian upper house increases KGB successor's power, to activists' dismay . Mara . Darren . July 19, 2010 . . June 17, 2017 . . Levitz . David . of the secret police (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB..
- News: The Spies Who Love Putin . Galeotti . Mark . January 17, 2017 . . June 17, 2017 . the infamous Federal Security Service (FSB). Originally established to protect the Kremlin’s rule at home, it has increasingly moved into Russia’s foreign operations. A new cohort of secret policemen....Their backgrounds as secret police in an authoritarian state make them especially prone to bullying and blackmailing, corrupting and killing.
- News: Russian activist Pavlensky guilty over tyre-burning protest . May 19, 2016 . . July 10, 2017 . the FSB secret police headquarters.
- News: New powers for Russia's FSB alarm rights activists . March 6, 2012 . . July 10, 2017 . Russia has expanded the powers of its FSB secret police.
- News: A rare look inside a Saudi prison that showers terrorists with perks. The Washington Post. March 1, 2015. May 29, 2017. Sullivan. Kevin. ...spokesman for the powerful Ministry of Interior, whose Mabahith secret police....
- News: WikiLeaks 'Saudi Cables' reveal secret Saudi government influence in Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald. June 20, 2015. May 29, 2017. Dorling. Philip. ...the Mabahith, the General Investigation Directorate of the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the Kingdom's brutal secret police....
- News: An Idealist on Death Row. Foreign Policy. October 3, 2012. February 21, 2015. Caryl. Christian. ...the Sudanese secret police — the notorious National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS)....
- News: Has the Arab Spring now spread to Sudan?. The Independent. June 28, 2012. February 21, 2015. Howden. Daniel. ...and the hated secret police, the NISS..
- News: Syrian defectors target security police: colonel . Yacoub Oweis . Khaled . September 30, 2011 . . June 19, 2017 . Colonel Riad al-Asaad told Reuters that guerrilla-style attacks were concentrating on Military and Air Force Intelligence, secret police personnel entrusted with preventing mutiny in the military.
- News: In Syria's Civil War, Doctors Find Themselves in Cross Hairs . MacFarquhar . Neil . March 23, 2013 . . June 19, 2017 . Droubi . Hala . were herded into the office of Jamil Hassan, the head of air force intelligence, the most dreaded branch of Syria’s secret police..
- News: Syria: heavy firefight breaks out in Damascus . March 19, 2012 . . June 19, 2017 . A statement by rebels said they had killed Major Ayham al-Hamad, a key operative in Airforce Intelligence, a secret police division that has been spearheading the crackdown on the revolt in the city..
- News: Report describes brutal torture in Syria . Watson . Ivan . June 19, 2017 . . June 19, 2017 . The system is being run by at least four intelligence agencies collectively referred to as mukhabarat, or secret police, the report says. Those agencies include the Department of Military Intelligence, the Political Security Directorate, the General Intelligence Directorate and the Air Force Intelligence Directorate..
- News: A Tour Inside Syria's Insurgency . Wood . Paul . June 19, 2017 . . June 19, 2017 . Syrian activists talk a lot about Air Force Intelligence. Hafez al-Assad, the former president and father of Bashar al-Assad, had commanded the air force, making its security arm one of the most powerful of Syria's dozen or so secret police organizations..
- News: 'German spies cooperating with Assad,' Bild reports . December 18, 2015 . . June 19, 2017 . . had been travelling regularly to Damascus for talks with the infamous Syria's mukhabarat secret police. .
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- Web site: U.S.-Backed Secret Police Arrest Doctoral Student In Tajikistan. Sledge. Matt. 27 June 2014. The World Post. The Huffington Post. 20 August 2014. New York City. https://web.archive.org/web/20140628053028/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/alexander-sodiqov-tajikistan_n_5538467.html. 28 June 2014. A U.S.-trained secret police force… …The State Committee of National Security, the successor to the Soviet spy agency KGB in the central Asia country….
- News: Tajiks hold 'spying' Exeter academic. Hoyle. Ben. 1 July 2014. The Times (UK Edition). 32. London. …his meeting with an opposition leader was broken up by secret police….
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- Book: Stalker, Peter. A Guide to Countries of the World. 2010. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 9780199580729. 328. His heavyweight secret police, the KNB….
- Book: Bohr, Annette. Nations in Transit 2013: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia. 2013. Freedom House. New York City. 9781442231191. 579. …including MNS secret police and other officials….
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- News: Uzbek Secret Police Roam Russian Prisons. March 30, 2017. ...Uzbek Secret Police Roam Russian Prisons ... Rights activists says Tashkent security men interrogate detainees and abduct asylum-seekers in Russia with impunity.. The Wall Street Journal.
- News: Propagandastan . Trilling . David . November 22, 2011 . . June 16, 2017 . the country’s feared secret police — the SNB .
- News: Human Rights in Central Asia . Foust . Joshua . December 22, 2008 . World Politics Review . June 16, 2017 . The SNB -- the secret police that strikes fear into the hearts of citizens and expats alike.
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- News: Venezuela Confronts Retail Sector . February 9, 2015. February 21, 2015. Minaya. Ezequiel. Schaefer Muñoz. ...members of the secret police, called the Sebin, surrounded Mr. Morales and arrested him.... The Wall Street Journal.
- News: Rights group: American moved to dangerous prison. May 31, 2013. February 21, 2015. Associated Press. ...was moved Wednesday from the SEBIN secret police lockup....
- News: Trouble on the streets . May 21, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . the national guard and the feared, black-uniformed SEBIN (secret police).
- News: Utah man describes 'nightmare' conditions in Venezuela jail . Goodman . Joshua . August 23, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . Even the head boss over all of SEBIN took photos with me as if I were some sort of trophy to him,” he wrote, referring to the initials for Venezuela’s secret police..
- News: Reporter's notebook: How a look inside Venezuela's crumbling health care system got me kicked out of the country . Gutman . Matt . February 14, 2017 . . June 16, 2017 . They would likely have to call SEBIN -- the dreaded secret police.
- News: In Venezuela, a Rebellion Is Taking Shape, but Where Can It End? . Stolk . Raúl . April 17, 2017 . . June 16, 2017 . More alarming than a tweetstorm, however, are allegations that young protesters detained by Maduro’s secret police (SEBIN).
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- News: Farm couple 'face arrest for voting anti-Mugabe'. Raath. Jan. 3 August 2013. The Times (UK Edition). 35. London. …agents of the Central Intelligence Organisation, the feared secret police..
- News: HK adviser 'gave US$100m to Mugabe secret police'. Han Shih. Toh. 5 August 2012. South China Morning Post. 6. …Several reliable sources within the Zimbabwe secret police (the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO))….
- News: 'I was at Mugabe's "torture" camp' . Bootle . Olly . June 7, 2007 . . June 16, 2017 . for Zimbabwe's secret police - the Central Intelligence Organisation, or CIO..
- News: Harare Diary: Tom Burgis on five days in Mugabe's crumbling regime . Burgis . Tom . September 7, 2016 . . June 16, 2017 . for Mugabe’s secret police. The Central Intelligence Organisation reports directly to the president.
- News: Former member of Mugabe secret police granted asylum in UK . Laing . Aislinn . May 20, 2011 . . June 16, 2017 . A former member of Robert Mugabe's feared secret police in Zimbabwe...The CIO, along with the police and armed forces, was widely blamed for the worst of the violence .