Talk:List of secret police organizations
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Is the Special Branch really a secret police org? Thanx 68.39.174.150 11:33, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- This question has been the cause of considerable reversion and counter-reversion on this page and secret police (likewise the FBI and other US organisations). It all comes down to your definition of a secret police organisation and your politics. -- Necrothesp 15:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- Don't feel like a revert war so I'll leave it. Thanx 68.39.174.150 22:44, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- not sure why that's controversial. I guess some people take 'secret police' to be a value judgement rather than a neutral category, i.e., something negative associated with enemy states. The Special Branch is certainly 'secret' and 'police' and political, if that's a defining characteristic. Bobanny 17:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Don't feel like a revert war so I'll leave it. Thanx 68.39.174.150 22:44, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Soviet Union
What were the secret police of the Soviet Union called? NeoChrono Ryu 01:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- See List of historical secret police organizations. -- Necrothesp 13:04, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] SS
Should the SS (Nazi military group) be on this list? I don't know enough about them to know whether they are secret police material ot just an elite military group. NeoChrono Ryu 01:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- No. The Gestapo, who were secret police, were all members of the SS, but the SS itself was not a secret police organisation. In any case, organisations that no longer exist are listed on List of historical secret police organizations, not here. -- Necrothesp 12:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Updates
Some of the agnecies listed clearly belong on the "Historical" page, EG. Taiwan's entry describes an agency that no longer exists. 68.39.174.238 01:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
