Secret Police

Definition: Secret Police

Secret Police

Noun

1. A police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Secret Police

It was like the Soviet Secret Police if they cared a lot about shoes. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

You never know if he's on his way to the washroom or the secret police. (Ninotchka; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Charles Brackett)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Big Brother Is Watching: Secret Police and the Intelligence Services (reference)

• Crimes of the Secret Police (reference)

• Fontanka 16: The Tsar's Secret Police (reference)

• Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (reference)

• The Secret Police in Lenin's Russia (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bulldog Drummond Escapes/Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (reference)

• Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police / Bulldog Drummond's Bride (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Chase H.Q. Secret Police (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Two of the men often mentioned as possible successors to Stalin are Lavrenti Beria (L), who has served as top man of the Soviet secret police, and Andrei Zhdanov (R), who organized the Cominform.Credit: Library of Congress.

Prisoner of the Soviet secret police : Boris Penson, Soviet Jew : let my people go!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Romania

The reorganized and security services have a much reduced role in civil society, but still maintain sole control over the secret police files of the former Communist regime. (references)

Afghanistan

Soviet and popular displeasure with the Karmal regime led to its demise in May 1986. Karmal was replaced by Muhammad Najibullah, former chief of the Afghan secret police (KHAD). (references)

Hungary

In the early 1960s, Kadar announced a new policy under the motto of "He who is not against us is with us." He declared a general amnesty, gradually curbed some of the excesses of the secret police, and introduced a relatively liberal cultural and economic course aimed at overcoming the post-1956 hostility toward him and his regime. (references)

Human Rights

Romania

The law permits citizens access to secret police files kept by the Communist government. (references)

Poland

Critics continue to voice concern that the procedure of vetting politicians may be unfair, in view of the likelihood that secret police records were subject to loss or tampering. (references)

Haiti

A number of national human rights organizations criticized the arrest, calling it illegal, arbitrary, and reminiscent of the actions of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's secret police. (references)

Political Economy

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Police continued to suffer from the legacy of a Communist system, with "special" or secret police operating in all areas. (references)

Political Rights

Czech Republic

The 1991 Lustration (vetting) Law, continued to bar many former Communist Party officials, members of the People's Militia and suspected secret police collaborators from holding a wide range of elective and appointive offices, including senior appointive positions in the Government state-owned companies, academia, and the media. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

polici e fshehtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏البوليس السري. (various references)

Czech

tajná policie. (various references)

French

police secrète. (various references)

German

geheimpolizei. (various references)

Hebrew 

משטר�" חשאית, בולשת (detective service). (various references)

Hungarian

titkosrendõrség. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

秘密警察 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひみつけいさつ. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecretsay olicepay

Russian 

тайная полиция. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tajna policija. (various references)

Spanish

policía secreta. (various references)

agens, agente, agentes, agentibus, agentis, agentium, curiose, curiosus. (various references)

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+4 letters: reconceptualizes.

+5 letters: pyroelectricities, spectrohelioscope.

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