Seguridadn.
The Spanish security service.
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Okhrana1884
Cheka1921
GPU1922
Gay-Pay-Oo1923
Ogpu1923
Rabkrin1928
Gestapo1934
Seguridad1937
Abwehr1945
Kempeitai1947
Sicherheitsdienst1947
Okhranka1948
Securitate1951
SMERSH1953
K.G.B.1960
SAVAK1962
Shin Bet1964
Stasi1964
BOSS1969
Mukhabarat1969
Mossad1972
Shabak1972
1937 F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit ii. 120 I soon found out that these people belonged to the Seguridad, in other words the ordinary police of the old régime.
1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) ii. i. 47 A room in Seguridad headquarters.
1977 Guardian Weekly 3 Apr. 13/1 From time to time it's learned that this or that army officer has been replaced by a liberal, or that new police and Seguridad chiefs have been appointed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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