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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.

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National Security Agency The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collect ...

( ar, جهاز الأمن الوطني) , - , , State Security Committee ( be, Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі, КДБ; translit. ''Kamitet Dziaržaǔnaj Biaspieki, KDB'', russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ; translit. ''Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, KGB'') , - , , Internal Security Department , - , ,

610 Office The 610 Office (; full name: 中央防范和处理邪教问题领导小组办公室; abbreviated 中央防范办) was a security agency in the People's Republic of China. Named for the date of its creation on June 10, 1999, it was established f ...

Ministry of State Security () , - , , General Intelligence Directorate (GID) ( ar, جهاز المخابرات العامة )

Homeland Security Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" t ...

( arz, قطاع الأمن الوطني ) , - , , Ministry of Intelligence (Formerly, known as SAVAMA for a short period of time after the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

) ( fa, وِزارَتِ اِطّلاعات جُمهوریِ اِسلامیِ ایران, ''Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran'') , - , , General Intelligence Directorate (GID) ( ar, دائرة المخابرات العامة) , - , , National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KNB) ( kk, Қазақстан Республикасы Ұлттық Қауіпсіздік Комитеті, russian: Комитет Национальной Безопасности Республики Казахстан) , - , , State Security Service , - , ,

Ministry of State Security (North Korea) The Ministry of State Security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 국가보위성) is the secret police agency of North Korea. It is an autonomous agency of the North Korean government re ...

() , - , , Federal Security Service (FSB) ( rus, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ), Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii) , - , , General Investigation Directorate (Mabahith) ( ar, المباحث العامة, ''al-Mabāḥiṯ al-ʿĀmmah'') , - , , National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) ( ar, جهاز الأمن والمخابرات الوطني السوداني, ''Jihaaz Al Amn Al Watani Wal Mukhaabaraat'') , - , ,

Air Force Intelligence Directorate The Air Force Intelligence Directorate ( ar, إدارة المخابرات الجوية, ''Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya'') is an intelligence service of Syria, possibly the country's most powerful, owing its importance to Hafez al-Assad's role ...

( ar, إدارة المخابرات الجوية, ''Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya'')
General Intelligence Directorate ( ar, إدارة المخابرات العامة, ''Idarat al-Amn al-Amm'')
Military Intelligence Directorate ( ar, شعبة المخابرات العسكرية, ''Shu'bat al-Mukhabarat al-'Askariyya'')
Political Security Directorate ( ar, إدارة الأمن السياسي, ''Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi'') , - , , State Committee of National Security , - , , Ministry for National Security ( tk, Türkmenistanyň Milli howpsuzlyk ministrilgi) , - , , Security Service (SBU) ( uk, Служба безпеки України, СБУ) , - , , National Security Service (SNB) ( uz, Milliy Xavfsizlik Xizmati, russian: Служба национальной безопасности) , - , , Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) ( es, Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional) , - , ,

Central Intelligence Organisation The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is the national intelligence agency of Zimbabwe. It was conceived as the external intelligence-gathering arm of the British South Africa Police Special Branch in the early 1960s, under the Southern Rh ...

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