state security agency

A state security agency is a government organization responsible for protecting national security through intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, and enforcement activities aimed at preventing internal and external threats.

Observed surface forms (16)

• secret police agency ×8
• secret police organization ×5
• state security service ×4
• Soviet state security agency ×2
• NSA organization ×1
• counterintelligence agency ×1
• cyber security agency ×1
• government intelligence agency ×1
• national security apparatus ×1
• organ bezpieczeństwa wewnętrznego ×1

• secret police system ×1
• state security apparatus ×1
• state security ministry ×1
• state security organ ×1
• state security organization ×1
• służba bezpieczeństwa ×1

Instances (26)

• UB (Polish secret police) via concept surface "secret police agency"
  surface form: Urząd Bezpieczeństwa
• Eastern Bloc security forces via concept surface "state security apparatus"
• NKVD via concept surface "Soviet state security agency"
• Reich Main Security Office via concept surface "government intelligence agency"
• Gestapo
• British intelligence via concept surface "national security apparatus"
• Hungarian ÁVH secret police via concept surface "secret police organization"
  surface form: Államvédelmi Hatóság
• Australian Signals Directorate via concept surface "cyber security agency"
• MGB via concept surface "state security ministry"
• NKGB via concept surface "Soviet state security agency"
• DSS via concept surface "secret police agency"
• Departamentul Securității Statului via concept surface "secret police agency"
• OSO via concept surface "NSA organization"
• Iraqi Intelligence Service via concept surface "secret police organization"
• Naval Criminal Investigative Service via concept surface "counterintelligence agency"
• Cheka via concept surface "secret police organization"
• UB via concept surface "state security service"
  surface form: Urząd Bezpieczeństwa
• Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego via concept surface "organ bezpieczeństwa wewnętrznego"
• Służba Bezpieczeństwa via concept surface "secret police agency"
• Bulgarian State Security (DS) via concept surface "secret police agency"
  surface form: Bulgarian State Security
• Albanian Sigurimi via concept surface "secret police agency"
• GPU via concept surface "state security organization"
• Protection Squadron via concept surface "secret police organization"
• East German Stasi via concept surface "secret police agency"
• Czechoslovak StB via concept surface "secret police agency"
• People's Militia via concept surface "state security organ"