Bureau of State Protection

The Bureau of State Protection or BSP is the secret police of the Democratic Republic of Corumm. Responsible for internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and border security among many other tasks. The Director of the BSP reports directly to the Chancellor of the Republic and is not answerable to any other ministry or legislative body.

History
The Bureau of State Protection is the direct institutional continuation of the Commission of Public Safety that existed under the military regime for the entirety of the post-imperial era. After 1992 Linge Chen and the Party of Corummese Democrats renamed the commission and began transferring members of the PCD's organization department into leadership positions at the renamed bureau. A partial purge ensued with many agents perceived as unreliable being disappeared. For those that remained of the pre-1992 structure, Party membership became mandatory. The influx of ideologically motivated agents into the organization resulted in a more brutal approach being used on security matters as exemplified by one of its first official actions, Operation Brakion. Whereas the Committee of Public Safety might have simply arrested or condemned Shen Doik to internal exile, the BSP determined that he be humilliated and executed in brutal fashion.

Suspected Operations

 * Operation Brakion - The secret arrest and murder of Shen Doik, chief advisor and widely suspected power behind the throne of the previous regime. Immediately after the PCD victory, Doik left the country and took up residence in the Cape. In October 1992 BSP agents successfully kidnapped him in Cape Town and put him on a plane to Corumm. It is suspected that Doik was tortued and murdered aboard the plane and his corpse thrown somewhere in the Ocean of Cathay.
 * Operation Panoptes - Operation Panoptes refers to the concerted effort to expand surveillance of opposition politicians on both the left and right after the PCD victory. With the Ministry of Justice 'untying' its hands, the BSP began massively bugging private homes and offices, constant tapping of telephone and internet based conversations, intercepting and opening mail. Parallel operations were undertaken by tax authorities to create a database of opposition politicians and their assets, legal and illegal.
 * Operation Eschaton - The targeted killing of leadership cadres of the Army of Common Men beginning in March 1994. The killings mostly took the form of car bombs, poisoning and in at least five instances with a remotely controlled machine gun. The operation lasted approximately two years and its success was a necessary precondition for the later Operation Maniphage. During Eschaton approximately 430 people were asassinated.
 * Operation Maniphage - The gradual infiltration of the leadership ranks of the Army of Common Men. In the months before the start of Operation Eschaton, BSP agents joined the ACM as low level operatives. The BSP's targeted decimation of the leadership forced the ACM to progressively rely on newer but apparently loyal members to fill the yawning gaps in the organization. By late 1995 seven out of the ten members of the ACM's Directorate were BSP infiltrators. The new leadership proceeded to direct the ACM into even more radical actions, especially against civilians. This caused whatever popular support it still had, to completely collapse.