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In some countries, such as police states, dictatorships and totalitarian states, the secret police often uses methods that are or would usually be considered illegal ( violence, killings, blackmailing, intimidation, disappearances) to suppress sedition, dissent, or political opposition. This can also happen in states which describe themselves as " democratic". For example, the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly's treatment of the IrishThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan before Ireland achieved independence and since has included shooting people down in the street and intimidating people in the middle of the night, as well as the French Secret ServiceThe Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (generally known as DGSE is France's external intelligence agency. On April 2, 1982 it replaced the SDECE. Most information on this page was taken from. Organization Headquarters Direction Generale de la Se's sinking of the Rainbow WarriorThe Rainbow Warrior is a schooner ( sailing ship) operated by the Greenpeace organization. It is named after the Greenpeace flagship of the same name that was sunk by the French secret service in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on July 10 1985. The three-m has been characterised as a unilateral act of state terrorismState terrorism is a controversial term that is separate from the more common term, State sponsored terrorism. State terrorism is defined by some as violence upon a national population committed by national governments or their proxies. State terrorism ca. There are, of course, different varieties of democracyHere is a list of different varieties of democracy. The types listed here are not all mutually exclusive. Direct democracy Direct democracy is any form of government based on a theory of civics in which all citizens can directly participate in the decisio and, in times of emergency or war, a democracy can grant its policing and security services extra powers. These emergency situations can be abused or even manufactured. According to The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by journalist William L. Shirer was the first definitive history of Nazi Germany in English. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for many years until December 1940, when increasing Nazi censorship of his by William L. ShirerWilliam Lawrence Shirer ( 1904 1993), U. historian & journalist. He is known for being the writer of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for many years until being forced to flee just before World War II and other research and writings the Nazis in Germany of the 1930s manufactured an emergency by burning the Reichstag and then blaming it on the Communists.

Which entities can be classed or characterised (in whole or part) as a secret police organisations is hotly disputed, with, for instance, one side including the CIA and MI5 under the heading of "secret police" as the other maintains that organisations that are essentially for foreign intelligence-gathering and monitoring are not thus "police" and should not be so called. Another controversy is over whether the FBI and United States Secret Service must be included because secret-police activities such as wiretaps and what they characterise as "home invasions" are sanctioned, while the other side of the argument argues that such organizations do not engage in the repression, torture, and summary executions characteristic of other "secret police" organizations. The biggest allegations that the FBI constituted a secret police relate to the Vietnam era, when the organization infiltrated and attempted to subvert political organizations deemed dangerous under the directive of the COINTELPRO. Recently, the Human Rights Watch organization has accused the CIA of "disappearing" al-Qaeda prisoners.