One memo the activists found showed that the secret police had monitored their Skype communications.
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She hated being called a spy, because that associated her with the Stasi, the secret police.
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My favorite sections were the replica empty shop and the secret police interrogation room.
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"Political criticism still invites a visit from the secret police, " says Australian academic Martin Stuart-Fox.
Born in St Petersburg in 1952, Vladimir Putin began his career in the KGB, the secret police.
Ministers reviewed the secret police files, and declared that the case against Mr Zilk was indeed unproven.
I've heard the knock of the secret police at my door in the middle of the night.
Varujan Vosganian, the first choice, was dropped amid allegations that he once collaborated with the secret police.
During house searches, the secret police would usually neglect to investigate anything connected with women or children.
After her release she was followed by the secret police for some time.
Most controversy still surrounds the role of the secret police and the army.
Its coercive institutions, especially the secret police and intelligence services, worked very closely with those of the Soviet Union.
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In 1948 repeated interrogations by the secret police in late pregnancy cost the life of her second child, born prematurely.
And in lawless Russia, to have the trust of the secret police and the army will be a big help.
The new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had been head of the secret police and kept dossiers on Galina and her friends.
For much of this year, the role and influence of the secret police and the army have been on the rise.
Meanwhile her parents, who may or may not have been collaborators with the secret police, take their first trip abroad to Italy.
His cabaret shows mocked the East German government and the secret police.
He told an American visitor that he would hide a dissident under his bed rather than let the secret police take him.
Mr Maleh said the secret police objected to his speech where he connected the issue of human rights and the current situation in Syria.
He was so much like the other famous writers who could not hear the screams from El Morro or notice the secret police everywhere.
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They dodged the secret police, forged papers, gave underground seminars and produced a clandestine mass-circulation newspaper, which the authorities repeatedly, but vainly, tried to suppress.
In fact, he had a defense consisting of at least five layers: the regular army, the Republican Guard, the Fedayeen, the secret police, and the insurgents.
Such an election would be reminiscent of Stalinist days: the government is exceedingly unpopular but the weak and fragmented opposition is hounded by the secret police.
"I believe political files made by the Third Department of the secret police, the one that dealt with so-called internal enemies, have to be opened, " Mihajlovic said.
Some criminals are still protected by friends in the secret police with access to the files of people in government who have collaborated with them in the past.
He saw Cuba as a island walled off from its future by an iron curtain maintained first with Soviet help, now by the secret police of a vicious dictator.
He peruses the vast archive of informants' files on almost every Iraqi in the secret police headquarters and wanders through Mr Hussein's impossibly grandiose country estate looking for nuclear reactors.
Blithe to Stalin, Chagall sent a reckless letter in 1937 to his art teacher in Vitebsk that probably cost the old man his life at the hands of the secret police.
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