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LaFayette Curry Baker
Lavrenty Beria
Aleksandr Khristoforovich, Count Benckendorff
Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, duc de Rovigo
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secret police, Police established by national governments to maintain political and social control. Generally clandestine, secret police have operated independently of the civil police. Particularly notorious examples were the Nazi Gestapo, the Russian KGB, and the East German Stasi. Secret-police tactics include arrest, imprisonment, torture, and execution of political enemies and intimidation of potential opposition members.

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