Secret police
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Secret police (sometimes called political police) are intelligence services or police and law enforcement agencies which operate in secrecy. Therefore, they have little to no transparency, accountability or oversight. A secret police organization is often used beyond the law by totalitarian states to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian (autocratic) political regime.
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Concepts:
- Chekism
- Counterintelligence state
- Death squad
- Extrajudicial punishment
- High policing
- Intelligence agency
- Mass surveillance
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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