PIDE
Also known as International and State Defense Police, Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado
The International and State Defense Police (; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigration control and internal and external state security. Over time, it came to be known for its secret police activities.
Key facts
- Government agency.agency_name
- Directorate-General of Security
- Government agency.nativename
- Direcção-Geral de Segurança
- Government agency.formed
- 1969
- Government agency.preceding1
- Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado
- Government agency.dissolved
- April 25, 1974
- Government agency.superseding
- Direcção-Geral de Segurança
- Government agency.jurisdiction
- Portugal
- Government agency.headquarters
- Lisbon
- Government agency.agency_type
- Secret police
- Government agency.parent_agency
- Ministry of the Interior
- Government agency.logo
- Dgscomm.jpg
- Government agency.minister2_pfo
Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Background
- PVDE
- PIDE
- DGS
- End of PIDE/DGS
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
The International and State Defense Police (; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigration control and internal and external state security. Over time, it came to be known for its secret police activities.
The agency that would later become the PIDE was established by the Decree-Law 22992 of August 1933, as the State Surveillance and Defense Police (Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado) or PVDE. It resulted from the merger of two former agencies, the Portuguese International Police and the Political and Social Defense Police.