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  • State Security Investigations Service
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  • The Egyptian State Security Investigations Service (SSI) (Arabic: , Transliteration: ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 people, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior. The SSI focused on monitoring underground networks of radical Islamists and probably planted agents in those organizations and had the role of controlling opposition groups, both armed groups and those engaged in peaceful opposition to the government.
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Type
  • National Internal Security, Intelligence and Investigating Agency.
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  • مباحث أمن الدولة
agency name
  • State Security Investigations Service
Headquarters
  • Cairo, Egypt
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parent agency
jurisdiction
chief1 position
  • Director
Dissolved
  • 2011
Formed
  • 1913
  • 1954
abstract
  • The Egyptian State Security Investigations Service (SSI) (Arabic: , Transliteration: ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 people, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior. The SSI focused on monitoring underground networks of radical Islamists and probably planted agents in those organizations and had the role of controlling opposition groups, both armed groups and those engaged in peaceful opposition to the government. Following the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the head of the SSI was arrested under suspicion of ordering the killings of demonstrators. On March 15, 2011, the Ministry of the Interior announced the dissolution of the agency. The service was replaced by the Egyptian Homeland Security.