Ministry for State Security or Ministry of State Security (often abbreviated to MSS) may refer to: *

Ministry of State Security (China) The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the principal civilian intelligence and security service of the People's Republic of China, responsible for foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and defense of the political security and honor of t ...

Ministry of State Security (North Korea) The Ministry of State Security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea () is the secret police agency of North Korea. It is an autonomous agency of the North Korean government reporting directly to the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Su ...

*Ministry for State Security (East Germany), more commonly known as the

Stasi The Ministry for State Security (, ; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the (, an abbreviation of ), was the Intelligence agency, state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive pol ...

Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union) The Ministry of State Security (, ), abbreviated as MGB (), was a ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1953 which functioned as the country's secret police. The ministry inherited the intelligence and state security responsibilities of the ...

Ministry of State Security (Transnistria) The Ministry of State Security (, , ) is the Transnistrian National security, state security Ministry (government department), service. History It was formed May 16, 1992 and was headed by Vladimir Antyufeyev up to 2012, until he was replaced b ...

Ministry of Public Security (Poland) The Ministry of Public Security (), was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic. From 1945 to 1954 it was known as the Security Office (, UB), and from 1956 to 1990 as the Security ...

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South African Bureau of State Security The Bureau for State Security (; 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 to the prime minister on its ...

* State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus * Committee for State Security in the People's Republic of Bulgaria *

KGB The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ...

( Committee for State Security), in the Soviet Union *

Sigurimi The Directorate of State Security (, DSSh), commonly called the ''Sigurimi'', was the National security, state security, Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence and secret police service of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. I ...

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

Main Directorate of State Security The Main Directorate of State Security (, Главное управление государственной безопасности, ГУГБ, GUGB) was the name of the Soviet Union, Soviet Union's most important security body within the People ...

in the Soviet Union * People's Commissariat for State Security (Soviet Union) *

State Security Council The State Security Council (SSC) was formed in South Africa in 1972 to advise the government on the country's national policy and strategy concerning security, its implementation and determining security priorities. Its role changed through the pr ...

in South Africa *

Securitate The Department of State Security (), commonly known as the Securitate (, ), was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was founded on 30 August 1948 from the '' Siguranța'' with help and direction from the Soviet MG ...

(State Security Department) in Communist Romania *

UDBA The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acrony ...

(State Security Directorate) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia *

State Security Intelligence The State Security Investigations Service ( ) 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 Egypt's Ministry of Interior (Egypt), ...

in Egypt *

Belgian State Security Service The State Security Service (VSSE) (known in Dutch as ''Staatsveiligheid''; French: ''Sûreté de l'État'') is a Belgian intelligence and security agency. Established in 1830, it is the world's oldest intelligence service. The State Security i ...

* State Security Service Nigeria *

Reich Security Main Office The Reich Security Main Office ( , RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as ''Chef der Deutschen Polizei'' (Chief of German Police) and , the head of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS). The organization's stat ...

(Nazi Germany)

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