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OGPU: see secret police secret police, policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The Nature of a Secret Police

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OGPU

secret police agency, successor to the Cheka. [Russ. Hist.: Benét, 190]

See : Spying

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No references found			An OGPU detachment knocked on his Moscow door and he was hauled off to the Lubianka, but he refused to sign any confession. Brief thoughts from think tanks: a sampling of new offerings by Bethell, Tom / The American Spectator I believe it necessary to show this letter to [Feliks] Dzerzhinsky [the head of the OGPU] with extreme secrecy (no copies) and to all members of the Politburo and to prepare a directive: 'To direct Dzerzhinsky OGPU to work out measures with the assistance of Semashko and to report to the Politburo (two week deadline? The ship of philosophers how the early USSR dealt with dissident ... by Gregory, Paul R. / Independent Review According to the OGPU (Ob" edinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie, the security police) report on the incident a "massive scandal resulted which compromised the whole brigade. A PEASANT REBELLION IN STALIN'S RUSSIA: THE PITELINSKII UPRISING, ... by McDonald, Tracy / Journal of Social History			Ogletree, Charles J., Jr. Ogloblin, Nikolai Ogloblin, Nikolai Nikolaevich Ogneslav Kostovich Ogneslav Stepanovich Kostovich Ogneupory Ognev, Sergei Ognev, Sergei Ivanovich Ognevka Ognianov, Sava Petrov Ognishchanin Ognivtsev, Aleksandr Ognivtsev, Aleksandr Pavlovich Ögödei Ogoki Ogonek Ogonki Ogooue Ogooué Ogooué River Ogorman, Juan Ogorodnikov, Fedor Ogorodnikov, Fedor Evlampievich Ogosta Ogowe OGPU Ogre Ogun Ogurchinskii Ogyges Ogygia OH Oh, Sadaharu Ohad Ohanet OHara, John Henry OHCI Ohel OHiggins, Bernardo Ohio Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor Ohio & Erie Canalway Ohio and Erie Canal Ohio Co. Ohio Company Ohio Company of Associates Ohio County Ohio Idea Ohio River Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge Ohio River Scenic Byway - Illinois			Ogorman, Juan Ogorodnikov, Fedor Ogorodnikov, Fedor Evlampievich Ogosta Ogosta River Ogoué Ogoue River Ogowe Ogowe River Ogp ÖGP OGPA OGPC OGPCA OGPE OGPF OGPG OGPI OGPK OGPL OGPO OGPOE OGPR OGPS OGPU OGQB OGR OGRA Ograbme OGRAN Ographies Ographies Ography Ography OGRB OGRC OGRD ogre ogre ogre Ogre Battle Ogre Battle 64 Ogre Kingdoms ogreish ogreish Ogreism Ogren Plant Allergy Scale Ogrenci Secme Sinavi Ogrenci Secme ve Yerlestirme Merkezi Ogrenci Yerlestirme Sinavi Ogres Ogres Ogres ogress ogress

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