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secret service

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secret service
a government agency or department that conducts intelligence or counterintelligence operations
Secret Service
provides security for U.S. presidents. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2466]
See : Protectiveness
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You and I, who control the secret service of the army, denounce certain men, upon no slight evidence, either, as spies, and we are laughed at
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The day he first drifted into their crowded, busy rooms, they all suspected him of being a spy--one of the bought tools of the Diaz secret service.
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They caused fellows of your sort to form a false conception of the nature of a secret service fund.
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