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  • 61Secret Service codename — The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. Presidents, First Ladies, and other prominent persons and locations.] * The Presidential Motorcade Bamboo * The Department of State Birds eye * Camp David Cactus * The Vice President s… …

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  • 62State paper — A State Paper is a document or file kept by a government to record discussions, options and decisions by government officials, departments and civil servants. Some states follow a thirty year rule whereby state papers on an issue may be released… …

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  • 63Secret (TV series) — Infobox Korean name hangul=비밀 hanja=秘密 rr=Bi mil mr=Pi mil Secret is a South Korean television drama produced by the MBC in 2000. It was first broadcasted in South Korea from September 2000 to November 2000. It has a total of 18 episodes.… …

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  • 64Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 — The Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 known in German as the Geheimtreffen vom 20. Februar 1933 was a secret meeting between Adolf Hitler and 20 to 25 industrialists at the official residence of Herman Göring s in the Reichstag Presidential… …

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  • 65Secret Service — The major powers and responsibilities of the U.S. Secret Service are defined in section 3056, Title 18, United States Code. The investigative responsibilities are to detect and arrest persons committing any offense against the laws of the United… …

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  • 66State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus — The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus ( be. Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі, КДБ, ru. Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ) is that country s intelligence agency. It is the only intelligence agency in Belarus that kept the Russian… …

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  • 67State Security Department of North Korea — The State Security Department of North Korea is an autonomous agency of the North Korean government reporting directly to the North Korean leader. [Library of Congress Country Studies] It is the secret police of North Korea. It is involved in the …

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  • 68Secret — This very interesting name was a medieval French occupational metonymic for a Professional writer of letters and despatches on behalf of the state or a high noble. The name is recorded Heraldically in Switzerland when the occupation was held in… …

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  • 69secret police — Synonyms and related words: Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bugging, cloak and dagger work, constabulary, counterespionage, counterintelligence, county police, electronic surveillance, espial …

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  • 70secret (state) police —    an instrument of civil repression    The full phrase is a literal translation of Geheime Staatspolizei, which we all recognize in its shortened form, Gestapo. Every tyranny needs its secret police if it is to survive …

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