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{{Infobox organization|name=Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution|native_name=Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz|logo=Verfassungsschutz logo.png|formation=7 November 1950|logo_size=200|membership=~100,000<ref name=":01">{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=A Detailed Autopsy of the Collapse of the Superior System in the Divided Germany|page=119–23|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|city=Fucecchio|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref>|membership_year=1982}}

The '''Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution''' ('''BfV'''), also known as the '''Verfassungsschutz''', is the secret police of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]]. It was the descendant of the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] [[Gestapo]]. In 1989, its annual budget was $264 per person, which was $39 higher than the [[Ministry for State Security|Stasi]] in the [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|GDR]].<ref name=":03">{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=A Post-Mortem Comparison of Communist and Capitalist Societies Using the German Case as an Illustration|page=98–100|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|city=Fucecchio|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref> It collaborated with the roughly 100,000 agents of the occupying [[DGSI|French]], [[Secret Intelligence Service|British]], and [[Central Intelligence Agency|Statesian secret police]], and could break laws without any chance of prosecution.<ref name=":01">{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=A Detailed Autopsy of the Collapse of the Superior System in the Divided Germany|page=119–23|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|city=Fucecchio|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref>

==Activities==
The Verfassungsschutz harassed leftists and often spread rumors that made people lose their jobs. It tapped phones and searched mail being sent to the GDR.<ref name=":03" /> It also infiltrated leftist groups with [[Agent provocateur|agent provocateurs]] and gave them bombs, weapons, and drugs to discredit them.<ref name=":01" />

==References==
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[[Category:Imperialist secret police]]