Cold War secret police organisations

The organisations

 * 1) Soviet Union: Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), then State Political Directorate (GPU), then Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), then People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), then Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB), then People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB), then Ministry for State Security (MGB) and finally the Committee for State Security (KGB)
 * 2) Socialist People's Republic of Albania- Directorate of State Security (Sigurimi)
 * 3) People's Republic of Bulgaria- Committee for State Security (DS)
 * 4) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic- State Security (StB)
 * 5) German Democratic Republic- Ministry for State Security (Stasi)
 * 6) Hungarian People's Republic- State Protection Authority (ÁVH)
 * 7) People's Republic of Poland- Ministry of Public Security (MBP) and Security Service (SB)
 * 8) Socialist Republic of Romania- Department of State Security (Securitate)
 * 9) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia- Department of National Security (OZNA) and Department of State Security (UDBA)
 * 10) Democratic Republic of Afghanistan- State Intelligence Agency (KHAD)
 * 11) Peoples' Republic of China-
 * 12) N. Vietnam/Vietnam- Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security.
 * 13) North Korea- State Security Department (Gukga anjeon bowibu)
 * 14) Syria- Air Force Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya), General Intelligence Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Amm), Military Intelligence Directorate (Shu'bat al-Mukhabarat al-'Askariyya) and the Political Security Directorate (Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi)
 * 15) Cuba- Department of State Security and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
 * 16) Congo- General Directorate for State Security
 * 17) S. Korea-
 * 18) S. Vietnam- The Personalist Labour Revolutionary Party's illegal bands of heavies and hired thugs
 * 19) Portugal- International and State Defence Police and later General Security Directorate.
 * 20) Argentina-
 * 21) Chile-
 * 22) Brazil-
 * 23) Iraq-
 * 24) Iran-
 * 25) Israel-
 * 26) South Africa-

Links

 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_secret_police_organizations
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secret_police_organizations
 * 3) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1442004/Im-proud-says-doctor-who-spied-for-secret-police.html
 * 4) http://www.academia.edu/9775607/Stasi_Aid_and_the_Modernization_of_the_Vietnamese_Secret_Police
 * 5) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/stasi-aid-and-the-modernization-the-vietnamese-secret-police
 * 6) http://www.cjimagazine.com/archives/cji619c.html?id=62
 * 7) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/stasi-aid-and-the-modernization-the-vietnamese-secret-police
 * 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE