Perkumpulan rahasia adalah sebuah kelompok atau organisasi yang kegiatan, acara, fungsi dalam, atau keanggotaannya tertutup dari non-anggota. Perkumpulan tersebut dapat atau tak dapat berniat untuk membongkar keberadaannya. Istilah tersebut biasanya dipakai khusus untuk kelompok-kelompok tertutup, seperti badan intelijensi atau pemberontak gerilya, yang menyembunyikan kegiatan dan keanggotaan mereka namun memberi tekanan masyarakat.
Bacaan tambahan Sunting
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Pranala luar Sunting
Lihat informasi mengenai perkumpulan rahasia di Wiktionary.
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Secret societies.
- Secret Societies: a very short history — Documents of Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati, Carbonari, Burschenschaften and other organizations
- Stevens, The cyclopædia of fraternities (2nd ed.). A dated review of the subject.
- Secret Societies in Australia and English Freemasonry