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    The OVRA, unoffically known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (Italian: Opera Vigilanza Repressione Antifascismo), was the...
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    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...
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    emergence of the Black Brigades (brigate nere). The GNR consisted of former OVRA, carabinieri, soldiers, Italian Africa Police, and others still loyal to...
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    incipient resistance in the cities and provinces. He would later form the OVRA, an institutionalised secret police that carried official state support....
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    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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    known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA). During the 1920s, anti-fascists, many of them from the labour movement...
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    has a Residents' association, the Onslow Village Residents' Association (OVRA) which was set up in 1956 and whose object is to "safeguard the amenities...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • terrorized incipient resistances in the cities and provinces and established the OVRA, an institutionalized secret police that carried official state support....
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    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...
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  • as Zoug Mike Muscat as Dorv Karen Elizabeth Austin as Aba Janne Mortil as Ovra Lycia Naff as Uba Penny Smith as Ika Rory Crowley as Durc Joey Cramer as...
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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...
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    known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA). During the 1920s, anti-fascists, many of them from the labor movement,...
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    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...
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    In the Fascist Italy (1922-1943) and the Italian Social Republic (RSI), OVRA were a fascist Italian secret police organization. Ivan the Terrible implemented...
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    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...
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    and Italian fascism, Matteotti was assassinated by Fascists, affiliated to OVRA, in June 1924. The event provoked the Aventine Secession. Outlawed in November...
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    however, he became a collaborator of the Italian Fascist secret police OVRA and was involved in foiling an anarchist plot against Benito Mussolini, for...
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    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...
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  • chosen because of their large penises. The SS and fascist secret police (OVRA) are sent out to round up young victims, of whom nine young men and nine...
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  • 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...
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    sirens. The Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (or OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance in Repression of Anti-Fascism) was a secret...
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  • intende negata zovarave E ki ben intendesse anc negata farave Ki no metess in ovra so k'el intenderave: O l'om no mett lo cor e l'ingegn nient vare. In questo...
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  • Department (CID) Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism), active in Fascist...
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  • high blood pressure, angina, gout and acute gastric disorders Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician Arrested by the OVRA...
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  • UNS. The UNS received significant support from the Italian secret service OVRA , and its representative in Zagreb, Ciro Verdani, again stepped in to supervise...
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    albeit few, supporters of the fascist regime, such as the writer Pitigrilli, OVRA agent in Turin and Paris. In 1938, the French section of the National Fascist...
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  • (1957–1986) Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA) (1927–1945) Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) Servizio Informazioni Segrete...
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