The documents show clearly how Moscow forged a large apparatus of security and political manipulation with the intent of controlling the Spanish republican government and army and crushing rival leftist parties.
The authorities were allowed to make use of the apparatus of security and surveillance, and the proliferation of "prevention of terrorism" laws set up under the New Labour governments of 1997 2010, to combat any sign of dissent.
Although the "deep state", sinister and pervasive in Turkey as it plainly still is in Egypt, lingers in the apparatus of security and repression, Turkey's Islamists have won the moral authority to send the soldiers back to barracks, and have exercised it.
Consider, for instance, the power that AI brings to the apparatus of state security, in both autocracies and democracies.
But there are other branches of government, including of course, the executive branch, and the growing (and increasingly independent) apparatus of the security state.
Specifically, the constitution authorises the commander-in-chief to appoint and control all cabinet members in charge of departments relating to the apparatus of state security, such as defence, home affairs and border affairs (dealing with ethnic and strategic matters).
And one reason it doesn't happen more often is that an extensive apparatus of homeland security — designed, equipped and trained over the last decade — helps keep it from happening.
Former President Hosni Mubarak's party remains here, as does its machinery, along with the dreaded apparatus of State Security that only last week beat protesters trying to visit relatives in a nearby prison.
Even countries such as Saudi Arabia and Algeria, whose regimes are cushioned by wealth from oil and gas and propped up by an iron-fisted apparatus of state security, are more fragile than they look.
Fear has banished the majority to out-of-town estates, enclosed communities fortified by alarms, bolts, deadlocks, all the apparatus of an elusive security.
This latest series, moderated by Sonali Kolhatkar of Uprising Radio, is unique in its deep investigation of the origins, human costs, and apparatus of the modern security state.
