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Counterintelligence state
Vladimir Putin and then FSB director Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting of the board of the Federal Security Service in 2002 A counterintelligence state (sometimes also called intelligence state, securocracy or spookocracy) is a state where the state's security service penetrates and permeates all societal institutions, including the military. The term has been applied by historians and political commentators to the former Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, Cuba after the 1959 revolution, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, China under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin, especially since 2012, and the United States of America post-9/11. According to one definition, "The counterintelligence state is characterized by the presence of a large, elite force acting as a watchdog of a security defined as broadly that the state must maintain an enormous vigilance and enforcement apparatus ... This apparatus is not accountable to the public and enjoys immense police powers ...…
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Vladimir Putin and then FSB director Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting of the board of the Federal Security Service in 2002 A counterintelligence state (sometimes also called intelligence state, securocracy or spookocracy) is a state where the state's security service penetrates and permeates all societal institutions, including the military. The term has been applied by historians and political commentators to the former Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, Cuba after the 1959 revolution, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, China under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin, especially since 2012, and the United States of America post-9/11. According to one definition, "The counterintelligence state is characterized by the presence of a large, elite force acting as a watchdog of a security defined as broadly that the state must maintain an enormous vigilance and enforcement apparatus ... This apparatus is not accountable to the public and enjoys immense police powers ...…
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