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The logo of the SNB in use from 1992 - 2018. The SSS was created on 26 September 1991 as a successor to the KGB and its republican affiliate in the Uzbek SSR. [3] Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has retained the same responsibilities and a similar range of functional units, including paramilitary police and special forces.
Flag of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan. The Frontier Service, officially called the Committee for State Border Protection of the National Security Service (Uzbek: Milliy xavfsizlik xizmatining Davlat chegaralarini qo'riqlash qo'mitasi) and commonly referred to as the National Border Guard, [1] is a department of the military and National Security Service [2] of Uzbekistan responsible ...
East Germany. Ministry for State Security (MfS, "Stasi") (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit): State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic. Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung): Foreign Intelligence Service of the German Democratic Republic.
The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, pronounced [minɪsˈteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʃtaːtsˌzɪçɐhaɪ̯t]; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (pronounced [ˈʃtaːziː] ⓘ, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990.
The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance [2] (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung; German: HVA, German pronunciation: [haːfaʊ̯ˈaː] ⓘ) was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi), the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1955 to 1990.
State Committee of National Security [38] Turkmenistan: Ministry for National Security (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Milli howpsuzlyk ministrilgi) [39] Ukraine: Security Service (SBU) (Ukrainian: Служба безпеки України (СБУ), romanized: Sluzhba bezleky Ukrayiny (SBU) [40] Uzbekistan
To maintain what the East German state called Ordnung und Sicherheit ("order and security") along the border, local civilians were co-opted to assist the border guards and police. A decree of 5 June 1958 spoke of encouraging "the working population in the border districts of the GDR [to express] the desire to help by volunteering to guarantee ...
The Rosenholz files are a collection of 381 CD-ROMs containing 280,000 files with information on persons who were sources and targets or employees and helpers in the focus of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA, “Main Directorate for Reconnaissance”), the primary foreign intelligence agency of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).