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Secret police
intelligence agency and or police agency, law enforcement office which operates in secrecy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A secret police force is an agency most often used in dictatorships. It is used to scare people living under a dictatorship into agreeing with the dictator's policies. Not all dictatorships, however, use a secret police force. Fidel Castro's Cuba and Mao Zedong's China were able to maintain a dictatorship without using secret police.[source?]
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