Thought Police

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol) are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish thoughtcrime, personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party. The Thinkpol use criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (telescreens, microphones, informers) to search for and find, monitor and arrest all citizens of Oceania who would commit thoughtcrime in challenge to the status quo authority of the Party and the régime of Big Brother.

George Orwell’s concept of “thought policing” derived from the intellectual self-honesty shown by a person's “power of facing unpleasant facts”; thus, criticising the prevailing ideas of British society often placed Orwell in conflict with ideologues, people advocating “smelly little orthodoxies.”

In the USSR (1917–91), the State Political Directorate (GPU) ran the counter-intelligence Operation Trust (1921–26), which created the Monarchist Union of Central Russia, a fake anti–Bolshevik organization in Western Europe, to lure Romanoff monarchists and anti–Communists to return to Russia and there fight the Bolshevik régime; once captured, the GPU killed them as enemies of the Soviet state.

In the year 1984, the government of Oceania, dominated by the Inner Party, use the Newspeak language to control the speech, actions, and thought of the population, by defining "unapproved thoughts" as thoughtcrime and crimethink; for such actions, the Thinkpol arrest Winston Smith, the protagonist of the story, and Julia, his girlfriend, as enemies of the state. Among the means for maintaining social control, the Thought Police operate a false flag resistance movement, to lure ideologically disloyal members of the Party to identify themselves for arrest.

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