During the New State regime and until its end in 1974, the main intelligence agency in Portugal was the PIDE—"Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado" (International and State Defense Police). Nominally under jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, PIDE was in fact a secret police force controlled directly by Portuguese prime-minister António de Oliveira Salazar. In 1968, under Salazar's successor Marcello Caetano, PIDE was renamed the "Direcção Geral de Segurança" (DGS, Directorate General of Security) and underwent some reform. Following a coup by the Portuguese military in 1974 the agency was immediately abolished due to the abhorrence felt for the PIDE/DGS as a tool of the authoritarian regime.