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International Criminal Police Organization

(Encyclopedia)International Criminal Police Organization: see Interpol. ...

NKVD

(Encyclopedia)NKVD: see secret police.

MVD

(Encyclopedia)MVD: see secret police.

Cheka

(Encyclopedia)Cheka: see secret police.

Gestapo

(Encyclopedia)Gestapo: see secret police.

GPU

(Encyclopedia)GPU: see secret police.

OGPU

(Encyclopedia)OGPU: see secret police.

KGB

(Encyclopedia)KGB: see secret police.

Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich

(Encyclopedia)Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich ləvrĕnˈtyē pävˈləvĭch bâˈrēə [key], 1899–1953, Soviet Communist leader, b. Georgia. He rose to prominence in the Cheka (secret police) in Georgia and the Transc...

Molly Maguires

(Encyclopedia)Molly Maguires məgwīˈərz [key], secret organization of Irish-Americans in the coal-mining districts of Pennsylvania. Its name came from a woman who led an extralegal, antilandlord organization in ...