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Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit | |
![]() Sigurimi | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 10 December 1944 |
Dissolved | 15 August 1991 |
Superseding agency | |
Headquarters | Tirana, People's Socialist Republic of Albania |
Motto | "Për popullin, me popullin" ("For the people, with the people") |
Parent agency | People's Socialist Republic of Albania |
The Directorate of State Security (Albanian: Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit, DSSh) commonly called the Sigurimi, was the state security, intelligence and secret police service of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.[1][2] Its proclaimed goal was maintaining state security of Albania, but de facto the Sigurimi served to suppress political activity among the populace and preserve the existing political system.[2] It is considered one of the most brutal and repressive agencies to have ever existed.
In 2008 the Albanian parliament discussed opening the so-called "Sigurimi files", but the Socialist Party of Albania contested it.[3] A government commission, created in 2015, has been assigned the task of publicizing the Sigurimi files and identifying candidates for public office who had collaborated with the communist regime; however, as of early 2017, the commission has not yet started its work, and critics have pointed out that most of the files were probably destroyed long ago.[4]
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