title: Ministry for State Security
text: # Ministry for State Security
  
  Ministry for State Security or Ministry of State Security (often abbreviated to MSS) may refer to:
  
  * Ministry of State Security (China)
  * Ministry of State Security (North Korea)
  * Ministry for State Security (East Germany), more commonly known as the Stasi
  * Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
  * Ministry of State Security (Transnistria)
  * Ministry of Public Security (Poland)
  
  ## Similar agencies
  
  * South African Bureau of State Security
  * State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus
  * Committee for State Security in the People's Republic of Bulgaria
  * KGB (Committee for State Security), in the Soviet Union
  * Sigurimi (Directorate of State Security) in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania
  * Main Directorate of State Security in the Soviet Union
  * People's Commissariat for State Security (Soviet Union)
  * State Security Council in South Africa
  * Securitate (State Security Department) in Communist Romania
  * UDBA (State Security Directorate) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  * State Security Intelligence in Egypt
  * Belgian State Security Service
  * State Security Service Nigeria
  * Reich Security Main Office (Nazi Germany)
  