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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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 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. They caused fellows of your sort to form a false conception of the nature of a secret service fund. |
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