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 In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names.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

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

* Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD) (Government Intelligence Service), active in the

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA),, renamed the Republic of Afghanistan, in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. The PDPA came to power ...

Albania

* Sigurimi (Directorate of State Security), active in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Algeria

* Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (Department of Intelligence and Security)

Angola

Directorate of Information and Security of Angola The Directorate of Information and Security of Angola was the secret police of the communist People's Republic of Angola from 1975 until its absorption by the Interior Ministry in 1979. DISA had the authority to detain and interrogate those sus ...

(''Direcção de Informação e Segurança de Angola'') (DISA), active in the People's Republic of Angola

Argentina

* 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'')

Austria

* Geheime Staatspolizei (''Secret State Police)'', active in the Austrian Empire

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* 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), active during the

military dictatorship A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer. The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...

(1964–1985)

Bulgaria

* Komitet za dǎržavna sigurnost (CDS) (''The Committee for State Security''), most commonly referred to as the State Security, or DS, active in the People's Republic of Bulgaria

Cambodia

* Santebal – secret police during the Khmer Rouge period

Cameroon

* Centre National d'Étude et de Recherche (''National Centre for Study and Research'')

Central African Republic

* Force spéciale de défense des institutions républicaines (FORSIDIR) (The Presidential Lifeguard) * Unité de sécurité présidentielle (USP) (Presidential Security Organisation – acted as the main secret organisation before and after FORSIDIR) * Office central de répression du banditisme (OCRB) (''Central Office of Banditry Repression'')

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

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

Chile

* Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (National Intelligence Directorate), active during the regime of Augusto Pinochet * Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) (National Information Centre), active during the regime of Augusto Pinochet

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

* Jinyiwei ( Ming Dynasty) (1368–1661) * Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

) (1938–1946)

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

* Administrative Department of Security Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) (1960–2011)

Congo, People's Republic of

*General Directorate for State Security (

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

: ''Direction Générale de la Sécurité de l'État'')

Croatia, Independent State of

*''Ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost'' (RAVSIGUR) (Directorate for Public Order and Security) / ''Glavno ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost'' (GRAVSIGUR) (General Directorate for Public Order and Security) *''Ustaška nadzorna služba'' (UNS) (Ustaše Surveillance Service)

Cuba

Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities The Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (Buró para Represión de las Actividades Comunistas, or BRAC) was the Cuban secret police agency that President Fulgencio Batista maintained in the 1950s, which gained a reputation for brutality ...

( Batista government)

Czechoslovakia

* Státní bezpečnost / Štátna bezpečnosť (StB / ŠtB) (State Security), active in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

Dominican Republic

* Servicio Inteligencia Militar (SIM) – Military Intelligence Service under

Rafael Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( , ; 24 October 189130 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (, "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He ser ...

Egypt

State Security Investigations Service The State Security Investigations Service ( arz, مباحث أمن الدولة ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Eg ...

(Mabahith Amn al-Dawla al-'Ulya)

Finland

* Etsivä keskuspoliisi (EK) (1919–1937) (transl. "Detecting central police") * Valtiollinen poliisi (Valpo) (1937–1949) (transl. "State police")

Germany

*'' Preußische Geheimpolizei'' (Prussian Secret Police) – active in the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

and the Weimar Republic; merged in the Gestapo * Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) (Secret State Police) – active in Nazi Germany * Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) – The Wehrmacht's version of the Gestapo *'' SS-Sicherheitsdienst'' (SS Security Service) – The intelligence agency of the Nazi Party and the SS *

Ministerium für Staatssicherheit The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maintaining state authori ...

(MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security) – active in the German Democratic Republic during the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

Greece

* Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (OPLA) **

National Civil Guard The National Civil Guard ( el, Εθνική Πολιτοφυλακή, ''Ethniki Politophylaki'') was the security force of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), the government that the National Liberation Front (EAM) had establish ...

** People's Civil Guard * Greek Military Police, active as a secret police force during the Greek military junta

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

*Cuerpo de Detectives (Detectives Corp * Policía Judicial (Judicial Police) * Policía Militar Ambulate (PMA) (Mobile Military Police) *

Guardia de Hacienda The Treasury Guard ( es, Guardia de Hacienda), also known as the Treasury Police, was a police agency active in Guatemala from 1954 until 1997 when it was formally abolished along with the National Police and the PMA as a result of the peace acco ...

(Palace Guard) *

Centro de Servicios Especiales de la Presidencia Centro may refer to: Places Brazil * Centro, Santa Maria, a neighborhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Du ...

(Centre for Special Presidential Services)

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

Service d'Information Service may refer to: Activities * Academic administration, Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benef ...

(SD) (''Information Service'') *

Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale The Tonton Macoute ( ht, Tonton Makout) or simply the Macoute was a special operations unit within the Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. In 1970 the militia was renamed the ' (VSN, Volunte ...

(MVSN) (''Militia of National Security Volunteers'', better known as the Tonton Macoutes), active during the Duvalier dynasty

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones A ' () is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as "department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a ...

(DNI) (National Investigation Department)

Hungary

* Államvédelmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department) *

Államvédelmi Hatóság The State Protection Authority ( hu, Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH) was the secret police of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1945 to 1956. The ÁVH was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's KGB in Hungary responsible ...

(ÁVH) (State Protection Authority)

Indonesia

*Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban ( Kopkamtib) (Security and Order Restoration Command), active during the regime of

Suharto Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...

Iran

* Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security), active in the Imperial State of Iran

Iraq

* Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Mukhabarat) (Iraqi Intelligence Service), active in

Ba'athist Iraq Ba'athist Iraq, formally the Iraqi Republic until 6 January 1992 and the Republic of Iraq thereafter, covers the History of Iraq, national history of Iraq between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction), Arab S ...

Ireland

* Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

Italy

* Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism), active in

Fascist Italy Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the ...

and the

Italian Social Republic The Italian Social Republic ( it, Repubblica Sociale Italiana, ; RSI), known as the National Republican State of Italy ( it, Stato Nazionale Repubblicano d'Italia, SNRI) prior to December 1943 but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò ...

under the rule of

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

* Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (Tokkō) (Special Higher Police) * Kenpeitai (Military Police Corps), secret military police of the Imperial Army, later the army and navy * Tokubetsu Keisatsutai (Tokkeitai) (Special Police Corps), secret military police of the Imperial Navy, duties later assumed by the Kenpeitai

South Korea

* Korea Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) *

Agency for National Security Planning The National Intelligence Service (NIS; Korean language, Korean: 국가정보원, 국정원) is the chief intelligence agency of South Korea. The agency was officially established in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA; Korea ...

(ANSP)

Mexico

* Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) (Federal Security Directorate) * División de Investigaciones para la Prevención de la Delincuencia (DIPD) (Investigation Division for the Prevention of Delinquency)

Mongolia

*Dotood Yam (Ministry of Internal Affairs), active in the Mongolian People's Republic

Mozambique

National Service of Popular Security National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ...

(SNASP)

Nicaragua

* Dirección General de Seguridad del Estado (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security) * Ministerio de Seguridad Interior (MSI) (Ministry of Internal Security)

Nigeria

* Nigerian Security Organization (NSO)

Ottoman Empire

Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa The Special Organization ( ota, تشکیلات مخصوصه, ''Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa'', or ) was a paramilitary organization in the Ottoman Empire known for its key role in the commission of the Armenian genocide. Originally organized under the ...

(Special Organization)

Paraguay

* Pyraguës (Between 1814 and 1840, nicknamed ''Hairy Feet'' by civilians) * División Técnica de Represión del Comunismo (Technical Division for the Repression of Communism), active during the El Stronato period, the single-party military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner *

Departamento de Investigaciones de la Policía A ' () is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as "department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a ...

(DIPC) (Police Investigations Department), active during the El Stronato period, the single-party military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner

Peru

* Seguridad del Estado (State Security)

Philippines

* Metrocom Intelligence and Security Group, active during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos * National Intelligence and Security Authority or NISA, active during the rule of

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...

. Headed by Marcos' trusted military man, General Fabian Ver, who was also the commander of presidential security and in 1981, was appointed as chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Poland

* Urząd Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (UBP) (1945–1954) – Office of Public Safety, active in the Polish People's Republic * Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) (1956–1989) – Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), active in the Polish People's Republic

Portugal

*Polícia Preventiva (Preventive Police): 1918–1919, active in the First Portuguese Republic *Polícia de Segurança do Estado (State Security Police): 1919, active in the First Portuguese Republic *Polícia de Defesa Social (Social Defense Police): 1919–1926, active in the First Portuguese Republic *Polícia de Informações (Informations Police): 1926–1931, active during the Ditadura Nacional period *Polícia de Vigilância Política e Social (Political and Social Surveillance Police): 1933, active during the Ditadura Nacional period * Polícia de Vigilância e de Defesa do Estado (State Defence and Surveillance Police): 1933–1945, active during the Estado Novo regime under the rule of António de Oliveira Salazar * Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado – PIDE (International and State Defence Police): 1945–1968, active during the Estado Novo regime under the rule of António de Oliveira Salazar * Direcção-Geral de Segurança (Directorate-General of Security): 1968–1974, active during the Estado Novo regime under the rule of Marcelo Caetano

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
(Taiwan)

* Taiwan Garrison Command

Roman Empire

* Agentes in rebus * Frumentarii *

Cohors Praetoria The Praetorian Guard ( Latin: ''cohortēs praetōriae'') was a unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors. During the Roman Republic, the Praetorian Guard were an escort ...

(SPQR) (Praetorian Guard) An ancient Roman institution in charge of the Roman Emperor's safety.

Romania

* Departamentul Securităţii statului (Securitate) (Department of State Security), active in the Socialist Republic of Romania

Russian monarchy

* Oprichniki (1565–1573) under

Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan ...

* Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (1825–1880) under Nicholas I of Russia * Separate Corps of Gendarmes (1836–1917) *

Okhrana The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order (russian: Отделение по охранению общественной безопасности и порядка), usually called Guard Department ( rus, Охранное отд ...

(Okhrannoye otdeleniye) (1866–1917)

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

Service Central de Renseignements Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a p ...

(SCR) (Central Information Service)

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

* Organización Democrática Nacionalista (ORDEN) (Nationalist Democratic Organization) *

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(FDN) (Nationalist Democratic Front)

Singapore

Special Branch Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence in Policing in the United Kingdom, British, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, ...

Somalia

* National Security Service, active in the Somali Democratic Republic *

Hangash The Hangash ( so, Hay'adda Nabadgalyada Gaashaandhiga), an acronym standing for Defence Security Agency, was a notorious secret police unit of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia until his overthrow in 1991. Overview Created in the aftermath of th ...

(Military Intelligence Unit), active in the Somali Democratic Republic * Victory Pioneers (Neighbourhood watch), active in the Somali Democratic Republic * Dhabar Jabinta (Division of military police), active in the Somali Democratic Republic * Red Berets (Presidential bodyguards), active in the Somali Democratic Republic

South Africa

Bureau of State Security The Bureau for State Security ( af, Buro vir Staatsveiligheid; also known as the Bureau of State Security (BOSS)) was the main South African state intelligence agency from 1969 to 1980. A high-budget and secretive institution, it reported directly ...

(BOSS), active during the Apartheid era

Soviet Union

* All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka, 1917–22) * State Political Directorate (GPU, 1922–23) *

Joint State Political Directorate The Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU; russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление) was the Intelligence agency, intelligence and state security service and secret police ...

(OGPU, 1923–34) *

People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

(NKVD 1934–46) * Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB 1934–41) * People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB, Feb Jul-1941/1943–46) * Ministry for State Security (MGB, 1946–53) * Committee for State Security (KGB, 1954–91)

Spain

*'' Servicio de Información Militar'' (Military Information Service), active in the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War * '' Brigada Político-Social'' (BPS) (Political-Social Brigade) / ''Brigada de Investigación Social'' (BIS) (Social Investigation Brigade), active in Francoist Spain *'' Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED)'' (Central Documentation Service) * ''Servicio de Inteligencia de la Guardia Civil'' ( Intelligence Service of the Civil Guard)

Turkey

Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele or Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı (abbr. ''JİTEM'' or ''JİT''; English: "Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism" or "Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization") is the unofficial and illegal intel ...

(JİTEM) (Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism), active during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict

Uganda

Public Safety Unit In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

* State Research Bureau

United States of America

* COINTELPRO, a program of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, t ...

that included operations directed against Communists, anti- Vietnam War organizers, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements,

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

organizations, anti-colonial movements, and the

New Left The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, g ...

generally, as well as operations directed against white supremacist and

far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

groups (none of these programs have ever ceased). * CONUS INTEL, a program of the United States Army that investigated and engaged in counterintelligence activities against civil rights and anti- Vietnam War organizations. * CONARC, the United States Army Continental Army Command, operated a separate program paralleling CONUS INTEL. *

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (also called the Sov-Com) was a state agency in Mississippi from 1956 to 1977 tasked with fighting desegregation and controlling civil rights activism. It was overseen by the Governor of Mississippi. T ...

, largely confined to the

State of Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mississ ...

to resist desegregations

Uruguay

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

Venezuela

Bolivarian Intelligence Service The Bolivarian National Intelligence Service ( es, Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional, SEBIN) is the premier intelligence agency in Venezuela. SEBIN is an internal security force subordinate to the Vice President of Venezuela since 201 ...

* Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar (DIM) * National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP)

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...

*Social and Political Research Service (''So Nghien Cuu Xa Hoi Chinh Tri'') (during the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem)Smith, Harvey Henry, ''Area Handbook for South Vietnam'': Volume 550, Issue 55, p. 220 (1967). U.S. Government Printing Office

Yugoslavia

* Department for People's Protection (OZNA, 1944–1946), active in Democratic Federal Yugoslavia * State Security Administration (UDBA, 1946–1991), active in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * Counterintelligence Service (KOS, 1946–1991) * State Security Service (SDB, 1991–2002), active in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * Security Administration (1992–2002)

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)

References

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