State Committee for State Security
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe State Committee for State Security (SCSS; Arabic: لجنة الدولة لأمن الدولة lajnat ad-dawlah li-aman ad-dawlah) was the primary internal and foreign intelligence agency of the Arab Union. An agency directly subordinate to the Council of Ministers of the Arab Union, it supplanted the Directorate of State Security in 1966 and was itself supplanted by the Special Committee for Internal Affairs in 1969.