The OVRA, unoffically known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (Italian: Opera Vigilanza Repressione Antifascismo), was the...

the head both of the regular police (State Police) and the secret police (OVRA) which was a pervasive national security agency that operated at all levels...

they had long lived apart). He had worked in the 1930s as an informant for OVRA, the Fascist secret service, but was dismissed in 1939 after being exposed...

emergence of the Black Brigades (brigate nere). The GNR consisted of former OVRA, carabinieri, soldiers, Italian Africa Police, and others still loyal to...

around 1938 La Cagoule:A number of Mod.1918/30 carbines were smuggled by OVRA in exchange for favours to the Italian government. Hafdasa C-4, an Argentine...

incipient resistance in the cities and provinces. He would later form the OVRA, an institutionalised secret police that carried official state support....

known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA). During the 1920s, anti-fascists, many of them from the labour movement...

Leto (Palermo, 1895 – 1956) was an Italian police official, head of the OVRA, the secret police of the Fascist regime, from 1938 to 1945. Throughout his...

has a Residents' association, the Onslow Village Residents' Association (OVRA) which was set up in 1956 and whose object is to "safeguard the amenities...

dismantled by the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA) in 1940 and 1941, and after June 1941 most of its former activists joined...

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Lavrentiy Beria 1938  Soviet Union NKVD Arturo Bocchini 1927–1940 Fascist Italy OVRA Wilhelm Canaris 1935  Nazi Germany Abwehr Thomas Cromwell 1533  Kingdom of...

Pirandello was always under close surveillance by the secret fascist police OVRA. His play, I Giganti della Montagna (The Giants of the Mountain), has been...

terrorized incipient resistances in the cities and provinces and established the OVRA, an institutionalized secret police that carried official state support....

known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA). During the 1920s, anti-fascists, many of them from the labor movement,...

dell'Antifascismo ("Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism") or OVRA was created in 1927. It was led by Arturo Bocchini to crack down on opponents...

Yaltam (Hebrew: ילת"ם) is the Israeli Navy Underwater Missions Unit (Hebrew: יחידה למשימות תת-מימיות Yechida le'Mishimot Tat-Mayimiyot), specializing in...

however, he became a collaborator of the Italian Fascist secret police OVRA and was involved in foiling an anarchist plot against Benito Mussolini, for...

In the Fascist Italy (1922-1943) and the Italian Social Republic (RSI), OVRA were a fascist Italian secret police organization. Ivan the Terrible implemented...

Mussolini's reign, which was handled by the Ministry of the Interior and the OVRA. By January 1934, the SIM had approximately 40 people in service (in addition...

traitor to his party and a spy for the OVRA. There are, it is said, the documents. But which documents? The OVRA documents, cut and stitched together in...

who were not intermarried. Glossary of Nazi Germany List of SS personnel OVRA – Fascist Italy's secret police, similar to the Gestapo SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt...

and Italian fascism, Matteotti was assassinated by Fascists, affiliated to OVRA, in June 1924. The event provoked the Aventine Secession. Outlawed in November...

sirens. The Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (or OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance in Repression of Anti-Fascism) was a secret...

(1957–1986) Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (1927–1945) Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) Servizio Informazioni Segrete...

established connections with communist activists in exile. Monitored by the OVRA (fascist secret police) in the following years, he was arrested in Menton...

UNS. The UNS received significant support from the Italian secret service OVRA , and its representative in Zagreb, Ciro Verdani, again stepped in to supervise...

high blood pressure, angina, gout and acute gastric disorders Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician Arrested by the OVRA...

Department (CID) Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism), active in Fascist...

Trotskyism, it returned to Italy, to its hometown. He was arrested in 1926 by the OVRA, sent initially to confinement and subsequently sentenced in 1928 to an eight-year...