Counterintelligence state

Counterintelligence state (sometimes also called intelligence state, securocracy or spookocracy) is a state where state 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, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the USA, especially after the Global surveillance disclosures and post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin.