Secret police (or political police) are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological...

of a secret service can vary greatly from one country to another. For instance, a country may establish a secret service which has some policing powers...

Prussian Secret Police (German: Preußische Geheimpolizei) was the secret police of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1851 the Police Union...

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 In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or...

This is a list of secret police organisations and intelligence agencies which are fictional: 1.^ Rainbow originates from the novel, however it is much...

ˈʃtaːtspoliˌtsaɪ] ; transl. "Secret State Police"), abbreviated Gestapo (/ɡəˈstɑːpoʊ/ gə-STAH-poh, German: [ɡəˈʃtaːpo] ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany...

This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on...

Retrieved 13 May 2021. "Secret police". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 September 2022. "Secret police". Britannica. Retrieved...

There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenin's...

Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the superstate of Oceania, who discover and punish...

The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security with the purpose...

"Flashback: The Police Pass Torch to U2". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020. "Secret Police Reunion in 1986...

Wałęsa and his family were under constant surveillance by the Polish secret police; his home and workplace were always bugged. Over the next few years...

States Secret Service Uniformed Division (USSS UD) is the Federal police force of the U.S. Secret Service, similar to the U.S. Capitol Police or DHS Federal...

views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force that operates outside...

Kenpeitai) was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police, espionage, and counter-intelligence...

Investigation, the forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1908. Secret police forces in the Eastern Bloc also used undercover operatives. Undercover...

IPA: [ɐˈxranə] , lit. 'The Guard') was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...

White House" computers in "recent months". It was said that the FBI, the Secret Service, and other U.S. intelligence agencies categorized the attacks as...

suspicious characters or anything of interest to the police. In addition there was also the secret police, in direct subordination to the ministry of the interior...

1917, Bokii became a leading member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, and later of the OGPU and NKVD. From 1921 through 1934, Bokii (alternative...

debate about whether some security agencies should be characterized as secret police forces. The extent to which security agencies use domestic covert operations...

Look up secret service in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Secret Service may refer to: Secret service, various kinds of police or intelligence organizations...

vehicles of the Super Secret Police to no avail as the vehicles are all Kraglized. They are captured by the Super Secret Police. Abraham Lincoln (voiced...

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police is a 1939 English Castle murder mystery film directed by James P. Hogan, based on the H. C. McNeile novel Temple Tower...

Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security...

Party and social purges were employed along with the extensive use of secret police organizations modelled on the Soviet KGB to monitor and control local...

if they do not apologize for their accusations of them hosting secret Chinese police stations, and are seeking $2.5 million in damages. Maryse Lapointe...

known as the Cheka (Russian: ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1917...

Самойлович Люшков; 1900 – 19 August 1945) was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector. A high-ranking officer of the NKVD...